Pacific silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers
The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.
| Main Author: | Winchester, Simon (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : The lonely sea and the sky
- Author's note : On carbon
- The great thermonuclear sea
- Mr. Ibuka's radio revolution
- The ecstasies of wave-riding
- A dire and dangerous irritation
- Farewell, all my friends and foes
- Echoes of distant thunder
- How goes the lucky country?
- The fires in the deep
- A fragile and uncertain sea
- Of masters and commanders
- Epilogue : The call of the running tide.