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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 119,826 ratings
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published
1998
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,347 ratings
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published
2003
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65 editions
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by
3.82 avg rating — 13,813 ratings
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published
2001
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51 editions
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,139 ratings
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published
2005
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9 editions
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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4.14 avg rating — 6,232 ratings
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published
2018
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.99 avg rating — 5,172 ratings
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published
2003
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33 editions
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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3.76 avg rating — 5,144 ratings
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published
2010
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49 editions
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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3.84 avg rating — 4,744 ratings
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published
2008
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40 editions
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
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3.85 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
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published
2013
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28 editions
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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4.04 avg rating — 3,895 ratings
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published
2015
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37 editions
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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3.79 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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published
2021
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20 editions
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
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3.92 avg rating — 1,825 ratings
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published
1996
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33 editions
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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
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3.81 avg rating — 1,647 ratings
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published
1985
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28 editions
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
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3.83 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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published
2023
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14 editions
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Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
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3.59 avg rating — 921 ratings
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published
1988
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15 editions
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The Alice Behind Wonderland
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3.32 avg rating — 874 ratings
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published
2011
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12 editions
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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
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3.63 avg rating — 463 ratings
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published
1999
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17 editions
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The Man with the Electrified Brain: Adventures in Madness
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3.64 avg rating — 449 ratings
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published
2013
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6 editions
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Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection
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4.37 avg rating — 306 ratings
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published
2012
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11 editions
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The Best American Travel Writing 2009
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3.74 avg rating — 268 ratings
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published
2009
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4 editions
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The End of the River
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Their noble lordships: The hereditary peerage today
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3.46 avg rating — 190 ratings
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published
1981
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9 editions
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When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
by
3.82 avg rating — 110 ratings
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published
2015
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3 editions
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When the Sky Breaks: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and the Worst Weather in the World
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3.98 avg rating — 104 ratings
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published
2017
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2 editions
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Simon Winchester's Calcutta (Travel Literature Series)
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3.71 avg rating — 87 ratings
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published
2004
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In Holy Terror: Reporting the Ulster Troubles
by
4.19 avg rating — 75 ratings
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published
1975
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3 editions
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The Day the World Exploded: The Earthshaking Catastrophe at Krakatoa
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Prison diary, Argentina
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3.76 avg rating — 63 ratings
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published
1984
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5 editions
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Pacific Nightmare : How Japan Starts World War III
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2.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
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published
1991
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7 editions
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Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture
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