Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester spends his life wandering the world and writing books, magazine articles, and making films. Among the subjects of his books are the surviving remnants of the British Empire, a walk along the length of Korea and the diary he kept while in prison in southern Argentina during the Falklands War.

• Simon Winchester's Calcutta
• A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
• The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
• Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
• Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked
• The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
• Outposts
• The River at the Center of the World: A Journey up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
• Worlds to Explore
• Yangtze Remembered: The River Beneath the Lake