Synopses & Reviews
Why has the Pacific reached preeminence as the Atlantic has declined? What links such disparate cultures as Australia and Japan, Korea and the west coasts of North and South America? Simon Winchester criss-crosses the ocean in search of answers to these questions, and the result is both provocative political and economical analysis, and a remarkable portrait of the human side of this immense new entity.
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"Eminently rich and readable...as broad and various, and often as scintillant, as the ocean it describes." The New York Times Book Review
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"Marvelously provocative...a dazzling descriptive writer who can drag even the most skeptical along just for the ride." Washington Post Book World
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"Simply one of literature's best travel writers." The Economist
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"A marvelous tour de force...sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving, always captivating travel adventures." Conde Nast Traveler
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-487) and index.
About the Author
Simon Winchester is the author of The Map That Changed the World, The Professor and the Madman, and The Fracture Zone, among many other titles. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.