Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Ken RingleSimon Winchester is one of those maddeningly gifted British writers who could probably write the history of mud and make it fascinating…Now comes Atlantic, which he describes as a "biography" of the ocean. Has he finally overreached himself? Perhaps. But what a rollicking ride he gives us anyway…What's best about Winchester's writing is his mischievous eye for the irresistible detail.
—The Washington Post




Entertainment Weekly"Winchester brings a knowledge as vast and deep as his subject to this history of the Atlantic Ocean."


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- Booksmack!
As much as Bryson's collection is about science, it is also about biography and history.