Showing posts with label Simon Winchester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simon Winchester. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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.