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A sumptuous, globe-trotting biography that captures the thrill of intellectual obsession and the romance of uncovering a civilization's forgotten brilliance. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The man who loved China.
- adventurous
- intellectually stimulating
- expansive
- romantic
- 01
Pacific
Simon Winchester
A sweeping, panoramic journey through the geological and human history of the world's largest ocean.
- 02
The strangest man
Graham Farmelo
An illuminating journey into the brilliant, contradictory mind of one of modern science's most enigmatic figures.
- 03
The Alchemy of Air
Thomas Hager · 2008
A gripping, tragic narrative history about the brilliant minds who pulled bread from the air and inadvertently unleashed a century of unprecedented destruction.
- 04
The age of wonder
Holmes, Richard
A sweeping, luminous journey into the minds of the dreamers and explorers who married poetry with the scientific method.
- 05
The map that changed the world
Simon Winchester · 2001
An earthy, atmospheric journey into the mind of an underdog who looked at the dirt beneath his feet and saw the deep history of the world.
- 06
Invention of air
Steven Johnson · 2009
A thrilling intellectual treasure hunt that connects the discovery of oxygen to the founding of a nation.
- 07
The Ghost Map
Steven Johnson · 2006
A gripping, grimy descent into Victorian London that reads like a medical detective thriller where science races against a deadly, invisible clock.
- 08
Newton and the counterfeiter
Thomas Levenson · 2009
A legendary genius descends into the gritty underworld of seventeenth-century London to play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
- 09
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
A sweeping, panoramic journey that recenters the globe and fundamentally shifts how you view the history of human civilization.
- 10
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
A sweeping, deeply human exploration of the collaborative genius that wired our modern world.
- 11
The Day the Universe Changed
Burke, James · 1985
A dizzying, exhilarating ride through the hidden connections and paradigm shifts that built the modern mind.
- 12
A mind at play
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
A joyful, intellectually stimulating exploration of the eccentric genius who quietly laid the foundation for the entire digital age.
