Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Audiobook (Free)

‘Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…An eternity of thought, travel, reading, creativity and storage inform this affecting account.’ -Kirkus Evaluations (starred review)

Blending background and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, NY Times bestselling article writer Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga from the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester pieces the great blue sea’s epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind’s intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, however the tale of civilization. Enthusiasts of Winchester’s Krakatoa, The Man Who Loved China, as well as the Professor as well as the Madman will love this masterful, penetrating, and resonant tale of humanity selecting its way over the ocean of history.