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Unfathomable depths
A wide-ranging — and sometimes exhausting — treatise on the life and times of the Atlantic Ocean explores its influence on the history of civilization
Veteran journalist Simon Winchester has, in recent years, taken to writing what might be called geological blockbusters. His method is to focus on a relatively contained event — the eruption of Krakatoa, say, or the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 — and envelop it in several layers of context, social, scientific, historical, political. Winchester’s technique gives him license to pursue tangents hither and yon, which are annoying and charming in equal measure.MORE...............
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