Atlantic – A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

190 MILLION YEARS ago, the shifting of two of the world′s tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved into the most important and most travelled ocean in our world.

In this dazzling biography Simon Winchester brings the Atlantic back to life, charting the ocean’s existence up until its eventual extinction, millions of years in the future. The captivating stories cover the age of exploration, the colonization of the Americas, the rise and fall of the slave trade and the great naval battles.

Completely unique and highly readable, Atlantic takes its reader on a wonderful journey through time, along the waves of our planet′s most significant ocean.

About the Author

Simon Winchester studied Geology at Oxford University. He is the author of ‘A Crack in the Edge of the World’, ‘Krakatoa’, ‘The Map That Changed the World’, ‘The Professor and the Madman’, ‘The Fracture Zone’, ‘Outposts’, ‘Korea’, among many other titles. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.

PB 498 pages.