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Atlantic: great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories

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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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