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Atlantic great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories

Acclaimed British journalist turned author, Simon Winchester, invites listeners to join him as he explores the Atlantic Ocean.

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Main Author:	Winchester, Simon
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	[New York] : Harper Audio, p2010.
Subjects:	Atlantic Ocean > History. Ocean and civilization. Winchester, Simon > Travel. Audiobooks.
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Summary:	Acclaimed British journalist turned author, Simon Winchester, invites listeners to join him as he explores the Atlantic Ocean.
Item Description:	Unabridged. Compact disc. Title from web page. Duration: 15:00:00.
Physical Description:	13 sound discs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:	9780061866128 0061866121
Author Notes:	Simon Winchester was born in London, England on September 28, 1944. He read geology at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. After graduation in 1966, he joined a Canadian mining company and worked as field geologist in Uganda. The following year he decided to become a journalist. His first reporting job was for The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1969, he joined The Guardian and was named Britain's Journalist of the Year in 1971. He also worked for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times before becoming a freelancer. He is the author of numerous books including In Holy Terror, The River at the Center of the World, The Alice Behind Wonderland, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and.Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to journalism and literature. (Bowker Author Biography)