ATLANTIC
Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Author: Winchester, Simon

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Harper/HarperCollins
Pages: 512
Price ( Hardback ): $27.99
Publication Date: November 2, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-0-06-170258-7
Category: Nonfiction

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The prolific journalist and historian returns with a story both geographically immense and profoundly personal.

Winchester (The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, 2008, etc.) offers a ...

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