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This is a very enjoyable book; it covers many aspects of the Atlantic Ocean. The book describes its formation and its ultimate end, exploration, the use of the ocean for commerce, for food, for battles, and the inspiration the ocean has for literature, art and music. And of course, the book contains some stories of shipwrecks and of the ecological damage that people have inflicted on the ocean.
Unlike some of the other reviews, I found this book to be an easy read. Winchester writes in a delight ...more
Unlike some of the other reviews, I found this book to be an easy read. Winchester writes in a delight ...more
This book covers a huge subject (let's be honest the Atlantic is a rather large subject after all) yet Winchester doesn't let this intimidate either him or the reader as he takes the reader on a journey through the epic history of the Atlantic and it's relationship to man, and man's relationship to it. Winchester's passion for the Atlantic and his respect for this epic ocean and its history comes through brilliantly and infects the reader from the first page and sticks with you until the very en
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I wanted to really like this book and so I was very disappointed when I did not. Winchester emphasized the negative of almost every aspect of the history of the Atlantic Ocean and man's relationship with it spending almost a quarter of the book on global warming and the depletion of fish stocks. I would have preferred a book with more of a sense of adventure in some parts to balance the rest.
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The author used the seven stages of a mans life as proposed by Shakespeare to write about the Atlantic. Several chapters are close to popular science some are history some are environmental and one is art. A very strange book.
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