Atlantic, the book

Captains,

Others appear to enjoy this book as much as I do. Atlantic is really just one author's perspective on the Atlantic Ocean, but its a good one. Whether you enjoy its strength and feel, or its history and people, or its fragility and uncertain future, you'll find this is a book worth reading or hearing.

RADM W

'Atlantic': Simon Winchester's labor of love and nostalgia for a mighty ocean

A review of Simon Winchester's "Atlantic," a spellbinding epic of the Alantic Ocean — its surface, depths, both shores and everything in between.

By by David Laskin Special to The Seattle Times

Oh to be Simon Winchester! What other writer lands — and nimbly dispatches — such plum assignments? In his latest volume, the globe-spinning best-seller bestrides the mighty Atlantic to summon forth a history of its surface, depths, both shores and everything in between.