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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 — 121,625 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 — 21,821 ratings
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published
2003
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64 editions
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,110 ratings
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published
2001
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7 editions
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,241 ratings
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published
2005
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17 editions
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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4.14 avg rating — 6,574 ratings
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published
2018
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8 editions
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.99 avg rating — 5,255 ratings
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published
2003
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37 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 — 5,256 ratings
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published
2010
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51 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 — 4,829 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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3.86 avg rating — 4,301 ratings
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published
2013
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27 editions
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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4.04 avg rating — 4,030 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 — 3,104 ratings
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published
2021
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4 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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3.93 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
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published
1996
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34 editions
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
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3.84 avg rating — 1,778 ratings
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published
2023
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16 editions
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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire – The Last Account of the Vanishing Empire
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3.81 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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published
1985
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28 editions
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Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles – Vivid True Stories Defining a Nation Through Its History, Geography, and People
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3.59 avg rating — 942 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 — 902 ratings
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published
2011
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14 editions
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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans – A Journey Into War, Chaos, and Violence in a Beautiful Region on the Brink
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3.62 avg rating — 482 ratings
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published
1999
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18 editions
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The Man with the Electrified Brain: Adventures in Madness
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3.64 avg rating — 454 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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4.38 avg rating — 308 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 — 270 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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3.45 avg rating — 194 ratings
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published
1981
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7 editions
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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
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3.96 avg rating — 140 ratings
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published
2025
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10 editions
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When the Sky Breaks: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and the Worst Weather in the World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings
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published
2017
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2 editions
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When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
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3.82 avg rating — 111 ratings
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published
2015
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3 editions
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In Holy Terror: Reporting the Ulster Troubles
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4.14 avg rating — 81 ratings
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published
1975
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3 editions
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Simon Winchester's Calcutta (Travel Literature Series)
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3.72 avg rating — 87 ratings
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published
2004
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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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3.69 avg rating — 71 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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8 editions
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