Atlantic

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• Atlantic

  Simon Winchester, author of more than a dozen books and frequent traveler on the Atlantic, takes on the difficult task of trying to explain that ocean’s history and wonder. Unlike Hugh Ambrose’s recent The Pacific, which chronicles the personal exper ... (read full critics)

  raintaxi published on Thu, 15 Sep 2011

• Atlantic, By Simon Winchester

  A biography of the Atlantic Ocean loosely structured around Jacques' "seven ages of man" speech, this tells the story of the ocean's birth 190 million years ago, early voyages on it by the Phoenicians, then the Vikings, then the great European naviga ... (read full critics)

  independent published on Sun, 7 Aug 2011

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• The subtitle -Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories- says it all. Simon Winchester sets a very ambitious goal for himself and achieves that goal for us, his readers, with admirable skill. The geographic span of his work is obvious and the tempor ... (continue)

  The subtitle -Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories- says it all. Simon Winchester sets a very ambitious goal for himself and achieves that goal for us, his readers, with admirable skill. The geographic span of his work is obvious and the temporal span breathtaking, starting in Cambrian times, some 540 million years ago to an inevitable end propelled by plate tectonics 170 million years from now. He examines this vast realm from perspectives ranging from the abyss to that of pilots eight miles above the surface. He delivers concise and insightful glimpses of the human history and physical forces that shape our experience of the Atlantic.

  The power, grace and subtlety of Winchester's writing is delightful. For those of us who thrill to English prose polished for the eye, the ear and the mind, his work is exemplary.

  If you could read only one book on the subject, this would be it.

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• English Books
• Others 512 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0061702587
• ISBN-13: 9780061702587
• Publisher: Harper
• Pub date: Nov 02, 2010
• Also available as: eBook

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