Miles Harvey

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1. Simon Winchester

   Author of The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

2. Miles Harvey

   Author of Look What Came from Egypt (Look What Came from), Look What Came From Ireland (Look What Came From...), Look What Came From Africa (Look What Came From...)

3. Nicholas A. Basbanes

   Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, Patience & Fortitude, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

4. Dava Sobel

   Author of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

5. Henry Petroski

   Author of The Book on the Bookshelf

6. Mark Kurlansky

   Author of Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

7. Kevin Davis

   Author of Look What Came from Australia (Look What Came from), Look What Came from Greece (Look What Came from), Look What Came from England

8. John Noble Wilford

   Author of The Mapmakers: Revised Edition

9. Franklyn M. Branley

   Author of Down Comes the Rain (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science), The Moon Seems to Change (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science), Sunshine Makes the Seasons (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science)

10. John Baxter

    Author of A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict

11. Melvin Berger

    Author of Oil Spill! (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science), Switch On, Switch Off (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science), Chirping Crickets (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science)

12. Lawrence Goldstone

    Author of Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World

13. Nicholson Baker

    Author of Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

14. Tony Horwitz

    Author of Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

15. Giles Milton

    Author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History

16. Jon Fasman

    Author of The Geographer's Library

17. Paul Collins

    Author of Sixpence House

18. Patricia Lauber

    Author of Who Eats What? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science), Snakes Are Hunters (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science), How We Learned the Earth is Round (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science)

19. Matthew Battles

    Author of Library: An Unquiet History

20. Ross King

    Author of Ex-Libris