Name: Atlantic: Great sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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Author: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9780061702624

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Atlantic: Great sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Type

Physical Book

Author

Simon Winchester

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

528

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9780061702624

Synopsis "Atlantic: Great sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories "

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of civilization. Fans of Winchester's Krakatoa, The Man Who Loved China, and The Professor and the Madman will love this masterful, penetrating, and resonant tale of humanity finding its way across the ocean of history.

Simon Winchester

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Simon Winchester. The biography of this popular British writer, journalist, and broadcaster is filled with anecdotes: in 1977, The Guardian appointed him as a foreign correspondent in New Delhi, and he drove there from Oxford. While covering the Falklands occupation for The Sunday Times in 1982, he was kidnapped. He has dedicated his life to writing informative books, among which The Professor and the Madman stands out. For his services to journalism and literature, he was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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