A review by knitreadlife
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

5.0

I appear to have taken a long time to finish this fabulous book, but that's because my economist husband (who has inherited what I describe as a double engineering gene) booknapped it when I was halfway through and has read it as well! This is Winchester at his best, stuffing in the facts layer upon layer with many a diverting side-story and footnote, seeking in his writing the precision he writes about