Atlantic : great sea Battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms,and a vast ocean of a million stories / Simon Winchester.
2010
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Atlantic : great sea Battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms,and a vast ocean of a million stories / Simon Winchester.
Author
Winchester, Simon.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780061702587 (alk. paper)
0061702587 (alk. paper)
9780061702624 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0061702625 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780062002495 (large print : alk. paper)
006200249X (large print : alk. paper)
0061702587 (alk. paper)
9780061702624 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0061702625 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780062002495 (large print : alk. paper)
006200249X (large print : alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Harper, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 495 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
GC481 .W56 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.46/13
Summary
Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vastness. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south, the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by Europe and Africa to the East. This book is a biography of this immense space, of a sea which has defined and determined so much about the lives of the millions who live beside or near its tens of thousands of miles of coast. The Atlantic has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists and warriors, and it continues to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. The author chronicles that relationship, making the Atlantic come vividly alive.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface: The leaving of Liverpool
Prologue: The beginnings of its goings on
From the purple isles of Mogador
All the shoals and deeps within
Oh! the beauty and the might of it
Here the sea of pity lies
They that occupy their business on great waters
Change and decay all around the sea
The storm surge carries all before
Epilogue: Falls the shadow, fades the sea.
Prologue: The beginnings of its goings on
From the purple isles of Mogador
All the shoals and deeps within
Oh! the beauty and the might of it
Here the sea of pity lies
They that occupy their business on great waters
Change and decay all around the sea
The storm surge carries all before
Epilogue: Falls the shadow, fades the sea.