Atlantic: great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories
Book 2807/Completed: 1/7/2017
Author: | Winchester, Simon. titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories / Simon Winchester. | Edition: | 1st ed. | Published: | New York : Harper, c2010. | Description: | xiv, 495 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. | LC Call No.: | GC481.W56 2010 | Dewey No.: | 551.46/13 22 | ISBN: | 9780061702587 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0061702587 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780061702624 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780062002495 (large print : alk. paper) | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-477) and index. | 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. | Subjects: | Atlantic Ocean -- Geography. | | Atlantic Ocean -- History. | | Ocean and civilization. | | Atlantic Ocean -- Folklore. | | Atlantic Ocean -- Description and travel. | | Winchester, Simon -- Travel. |
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