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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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Title Description Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Poets and potentates, seers and sailors, fishermen and foresters—all have had a relationship with this great body of gray and heaving sea. Winchester chronicles that relationship. Until a thousand years ago, few humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its seemingly limitless expanse. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to its far shores, humankind’s view of the world swiftly evolved to encompass this vast body of water. Much as the Mediterranean had been the center of classical civilization, Winchester argues, the Atlantic became the axis of Western civilization, upon which the power and influence of the modern world have been defined and determined. More than a mere history, this is an unforgettable journey of unprecedented scope by one of the most gifted writers in the English language. Recommendations Customers who ordered this book also ordered: 1. Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today by Tom Brokaw; read by Robertson Dean. (CD) 2. The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer; read by Don Leslie. (CD) 3. The Time of Our Lives: A conversation about America; Who we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream by Tom Brokaw; read by Tom Brokaw. (CD) Customer Reviews Have you listened to this audiobook? Please submit your ratings and review it! |
