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

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"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 expositi...

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Main Author: Winchester, Simon
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Language:English
Published: 2010.
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Ocean and civilization.
Atlantic Ocean > History.
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Summary:"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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ISBN:9780062020109
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.

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