by Simon Winchester
I picked up The Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories under the mistaken belief that it was a history book about the Atlantic World. When I mentioned to my mother, an early American historian, that I was reading a book blurbed as "the...
Slate puzzles over the appeal of Simon Winchester, but more or less answers its own question. what does Winchester offer? escape. escape. escapism.Nathan Heller, the Slate writer, however, is justified in pointing out a curiousity about SW. specifically, how does a writer so un-unified in prose, pic...
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A thorough and leisurely accounting of the Atlantic from its creation 195 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart, to its eventual demise millions of years in the future, when the continents will have coalesced again. Despite the book's broad scope most of the focus ...
Using as his central pillar a Shakespearean monologue from As You Like It that lists the seven stages of a man’s life, Simon Winchester offers us the life of an ocean. He covers a very wide swath in his examination of that very un-pacific Atlantic. Beginning with big-picture geology, he looks at the...
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