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Simon Winchester | a History of Precision Engineering and the Making of the Modern World

Hidden Forces

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How to Write a Successful Non-Fiction Book

The structure of the book came together for me as I started to read it. You can write lyrically about an incredible idea, but if you get the structure wrong or inappropriate or clumsy, you'll lose the reader. That's what you don't want to do. The school child is asking to know about the ocean. It seemed to me that you could look at the ocean from its origins, its childhood. And similarly with the men who united the states,. I decided I'd do America looking at it as it were, not necessarily through foreign eyes, although I'm English. So they are sort of foreign,although I'm an American now. But through the structure given to me by

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