Atlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories / Simon Winchester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winchester, Simon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winchester, Simon--Travel.

Winchester, Simon.

Ocean and civilization.

History.

Geography.

Travel.

Atlantic Ocean--Geography.

Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantic Ocean--History.

Atlantic Ocean--Folklore.

Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel.

Genre:

Folklore.

Physical Description:

xiv, 495 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper, [2010]

Summary:

Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Simon Winchester makes the Atlantic come vividly alive. Spanning the ocean's story from its geological origins to the age of exploration-covering the Vikings, the Irish, the Basques, John Cabot, and Christopher Columbus in the north, and the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south-and from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and overfishing, his narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring. More than a mere history, this is an unforgettable journey of unprecedented scope by one of the most gifted writers in the English language. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 From The Purple Isles of Mogador 51

Chapter 2 All The Shoals and Deeps Within 99

Chapter 3 Oh! The Beauty and the Might of it 149

Chapter 4 Here the Sea of Pity Lies 207

Chapter 5 They that Occupy their Business on Great Waters 273

Chapter 6 Change and Decay All Around the Sea 329

Chapter 7 The Storm Surge Carries All Before 395.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780061702587

0061702587

9780061702624