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

by Simon Winchester

Book Overview

Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account. --Kirkus Reviews... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061702587
• ISBN13: 9780061702587
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Absolutely Abominable

"Atlantic" is without a doubt the very worst book Winchester has ever written. It is excessively verbose and loquacious. It's all about himself. Very long prologue and preface that serve no purpose but to fill up pages. The book is completely disorganized and delivers NONE of which the front cover promises. Dreadfully boring, rarely informative, tedious, slow, and overwhelmingly dull, it is a wonderful cure for interminable insomnia. Don't waste your money on this piece of trash.