Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Simon Winchester
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Simon Winchester
The geological history of the Pacific Ocean and its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Harper
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780062440730
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Pacific Ocean historyGeopolitics and superpowersGeology and natural history
Awards
- Kirkus Prize for NonfictionShortlisted(2015)
Other awarded books from Simon Winchester
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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