The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

1998

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

2005

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Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

2002

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

1988

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Simon Winchester

2003

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John M. Barry

2004

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