Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by
Simon Winchester
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
"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, geography and reminiscence, science...