Atlantic
Subtitle: great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories
By: Simon Winchester
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780061702587; 9780061702624; 9780062002495
Subjects: Description and travel; Folklore; Travel; History; Ocean and civilization; Geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-477) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: The leaving of Liverpool; title: Prologue: The beginnings of its goings on; title: From the purple isles of Mogador; title: All the shoals and deeps within; title: Oh! the beauty and the might of it; title: Here the sea of pity lies; title: They that occupy their business on great waters; title: Change and decay all around the sea; title: The storm surge carries all before; title: Epilogue: Falls the shadow, fades the sea.