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Classical in form, earnest, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Simon Winchester
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 362
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, Hodder and Stoughton, Sceptre
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141011899
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“Like most long journeys into the unknown, this one began with an idea - an idea that was triggered by a strange story I read one wet Sunday afternoon in a recent early spring, on the front page of a London newspaper.”
Author and journalist <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Winchester>Simon Winchester</a> was born in England but favours the United States.
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