The Atlantic Ocean from its first existence, our discovery of it as a immense sea between Europe and the Americas through to its likely demise. It stays absorbing and hugely informative from page one with Simon Winchester tackling geology, geography, history, archaeology, science, natural history, biology and ecology to tell this vast story. All these “ologies” don’t overwhelm, the author is a master of marshalling facts and writes with great verve, injecting this history with anecdote and his own personal experiences of the ocean from child to man.
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