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 (starred review)

Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061702625
• ISBN13: 9780061702624
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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.