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

Simon Winchester

eBook - 2010

"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.

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Published
HarperCollins
Language
English
Main Author
Simon Winchester
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9780062020109
Release Date11/2/2010
Kindle Book
ASINB003VIWNTE
Release Date11/2/2010
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780062020109
Release Date11/2/2010