Pacific: Ocean of the Future - Simon Winchester
Category: Bestsellers
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Tags: Bestsellers, Misc. Non-fiction, Adults
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature., As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West coast, including Seattle, San Francisco, and the long cluster of towns down the Silicon Valley., Today, the Pacific is ascendant. Its geological history has long transformed ustremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamisbut its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellans sixteenth-century circumnavigation. It is a natural wonder whose most fascinating history is currently being made., In telling the story of the Pacific, Simon Winchester takes us from the Bering Strait to
