num_pages: 496
description: Why has the Pacific region reached such preeminence? What links its disparate cultures? In a provocative analysis that combines politics and culture as well as economics, Winchester gives readers a remarkable new look at the people of this region, from Japan to Australia, Korea to the west coasts of North and South America. 25 maps.
language: English
title: Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture
titlecomplete: Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture
genres: Travel, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Touchstone Books