1st Edition Hard Covers Signed by Simon Winchester

	The Meaning of Everything - Signed Copy
	A Crack in the Edge of the World - Signed Copy
	Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded - Signed Copy
	The Man Who Loved China - Signed Hard Cover

The Atlantic book tour kicks off in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch during the first fortnight in September. British publication is 11th October and the American pub date is 2nd November. Canada following shortly thereafter. More precise dates when my various publishers let me know.

haiti-project

In German only, I am afraid; but I am sure most will get the gist. 1064

I will be giving talks in the cities of Chongqing, Kunming and Chengdu on 29th - 31st March, to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the re-establishment of the British Council in Western China. Specific details of the times and places to follow. Do please come if you can - an excellent time to see Yunnan and Sichuan.

The Man Who Loved China
February 11, 2010. Spencer Trask Lecture: 8pm, McCosh 50

Seldom can it be said that any one person ever managed to change the outside world’s perception of an entire nation, an entire people. But, beginning in 1954, Joseph Needham (1900–1995), a Cambridge biochemist, a figure dauntingly eccentric and brilliantly polymathic in equal measure, did just that.  In this talk Simon Winchester, who spent two years tracing Needham's footsteps across wartime China, when the idea was born, will tell his remarkable story.

A graduate of Oxford University, Simon Winchester began his career as a journalist in 1967 and has covered numerous stories for The Guardian and The Sunday Times, including the Ulster crisis, the creation of Bangladesh, the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos, the Watergate affair, the Jonestown massacre, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, and the Falklands War. He has worked as a free-lance writer for more than 20 years, contributing to Harper’s, Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Spectator, Granta, the New York Times, and The Atlantic, and publishing several best-selling books. He has written The River at the Center of the World, about China’s Yangtze River; the bestselling The Professor and the Madman; The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans, which tells the story of his journey from Austria to Turkey during the 1999 war in Kosovo; and The Map That Changed the World, about 19th-century geologist William Smith. In addition he is the author of the best-selling Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 and A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. His latest book - and from which this talk is drawn - is The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (May 2008).

On Tuesday evening in Manhattan - exactly one week after we first heard intimations of the dreadful news from Port au Prince - there will be a benefit for the victims at Idlewild Books, on 19th Street in Chelsea. I do hope those of you who can come, will come: we need to do everything and anything to help.