Atlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories / Simon Winchester
| Author(s): | Winchester, Simon |
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| Subjects: | Ocean and civilization Atlantic Ocean--Geography Atlantic Ocean--History Atlantic Ocean--Folklore Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel Winchester, Simon--Travel |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Published: | New York : Harper, c2010 |
| LC Classification: | G, GC |
| Table of Contents: | List of Maps and Illustrations xi Preface The Leaving Of Liverpool 1 Prologue The Beginnings Of Its Goings On 29 ch. 1 . From The Purple Isles Of Mogador 57 ch. 2 . All The Shoals And Deeps Within 99 ch. 3 . Oh! The Beauty And The Might Of It 149 ch. 4 . Here The Sea Of Pity Lies 207 ch. 5 . They That Occupy Their Business On Great Waters 273 ch. 6 . Change And Decay All Around The Sea 329 ch. 7 . The Storm Surge Carries All Before 395 Epilogue Falls The Shadow, Fades The Sea 441 Acknowledgments 461 A Glossary of Possibly Unfamiliar Terms 465 Bibliography 469 Index 479 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2010015229 ISBN: 9780061702587 (hardcover : alk. paper) :$27.99 ISBN: 9780061702624 (pbk. : alk. paper) Invalid ISN: 9780062002495 (large print : alk. paper) ISBN: ISBN: 0061702587 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN: 0061702625 (pbk. : alk. paper) Invalid ISN: 006200249X (large print : alk. paper) 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 Contents: The leaving of Liverpool -- 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 -- Falls the shadow, fades the sea Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-477) and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 495 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 526057786 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780061702587 9780061702624 9780062002495 0061702587 0061702625 006200249X |