Atlantic

<p>Variably genial cautionary lyrical admonitory terrifying horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought travel reading imagination and memory inform this affecting account. --<em>Kirkus Reviews</em> (starred review)</p><p>Blending history and anecdote geography and reminiscence science and exposition <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution telling not only the story of an ocean but the story of civilization. Fans of Winchester's <em>Krakatoa The Man Who Loved China</em> and <em>The Professor and the Madman</em> will love this masterful penetrating and resonant tale of humanity finding its way across the ocean of history.</p>