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Synopsis
A text which identifies and examines today's Pacific Ocean, its countries and the social, cultural and economic characteristics that either unite or divide them.
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About the Author
Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of `Atlantic', `The Man Who Loved China', `A Crack in the Edge of the World', `Krakatoa', `The Map That Changed the World', `The Surgeon of Crowthorne' ('The Professor and the Madman'), `The Fracture Zone', `Outposts' and `Korea', among many other titles. In 2006 he was awarded the OBE. He lives in western Massachusetts and New York City.
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`Gripping ... This might be his best [book] yet... Like all good writers, Winchester knows that specificity is all ... stirring stuff. The variety of material is astonishing ... As all good books must, this one shifts from the long-lens to the close-up shot, and from the tragic to the absurd' Literary Review`[Simon Winchester] is a terrific helmsman, both confident and smooth' 4*, Daily TelegraphPraise for Simon Winchester:`Winchester pioneered the genre of popular narrative history ... [he] understands that specificity is what counts, as it always does in writing' Sunday Telegraph`Simon Winchester is a literary impresario ... This is a clever, engaging and original look at what would seem well-trodden historical paths; but Winchester, delightfully, breaks a fresh trail' Economist'Winchester unfolds this epic narrative with admirable simplicity: his prose style is conversational, and crackles with strange images. He marries even-handed scholarship with a gift for storytelling, neither dumbing down nor assuming any specific knowledge in his readership. This is from start to finish an enthralling book, and one that does justice to the magnitude of its subject' Edmund Gordon, Sunday Times'Illuminating...a] wonderful, encyclopaedic book, pinpointing key moments in the narrative of an entire ocean and our relationship to it' Philip Hoare, Sunday Telegraph
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The Pacific
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Hutchinson, London, England, 1991
ISBN 10: 0091734851
ISBN 13: 9780091734855
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SOFTCOVER. As well as providing encyclopaedia-style information - geophysical, meterological, historical and more - "The Pacific" offers anecdote and travelogue, the author's visit to Tonga, the zero date line from which can be seen 60 miles away a mountain top where the time is the same but the date is the previous day's, his voyage through the Panama Canal and his travels in the Canadian Pacific North West. 1991. A trade paperback copy in near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 13788122
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The Pacific
Published by
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ISBN 13: 9780091734855
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 10 + 501 pages, augmented by several maps, this is a very nice condition copy of Simon Winchester's excellent work on The Pacific - not to be confused with his more recent book entitled "Pacific". This earlier work explores the Pacific region in a few parts, such as The Great Ocean; Approaches (Darien and Malacca, among others); Connections ; Icons; Places in the Basin; Cities on the Rim; and The Wave. Further Reading and Index bring up the rear to a most readable and, of its time, unusual book. Mild bumping at spine. Jacket creased at top and bottom edges, and price-clipped. PLEASE NOTE! This is a heavy book (in excess of 1kg when packed) but postage/shipping within UK is included in the indicated pricing for 3-5 days shipping time option. For an order outside of UK or an order within UK for 1-3 days shipping time option, however, I will be asking for an additional contribution towards shipping costs. Seller Inventory # 3322a
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