Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Simon Winchester

495 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history science travel adventurous informative slow-paced

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"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, g...

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Moods

informative 100%
reflective 57%
adventurous 42%
challenging 14%
emotional 14%

Pace

slow 85%
medium 14%

Average rating

3.52

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