ATLANTIC: GREAT SEA BATTLES, HEROIC DISCOVERIES, TITANIC STORMS, VAST OCEAN OF A MILLION STORIES
Simon Winchester
Harper Press
His passion lies plainly on the page, but so too do oversights and anecdotal assertions on the great ocean’s past, present and future.
This is not to discount the strength of the individual sections of the ambitious title, but a more focused approach would have improved the impact. As it is written it is not the cover-to-cover read to which fans of Winchester are accustomed. – Rory Keohane