Simon Winchester at Prince Books with his new book Atlantic!

Join us at Prince Books in downtown Norfolk on November 5th at 6pm for a chance to meet the author Simon Winchester and discuss his new book, Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discovers, Titantic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories.

About the Book:

With ATLANTIC: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discovers, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Harper: on-sale November 2, 2010), Simon Winchester returns to his trademark blend of history, natural science, and keen observations with a fascinating ”biography” of one of the world’s great oceans. Displaying a remarkable fluidity of narrative style and command of content that has earned him praise as “a master at telling a complex story compellingly and lucidly” (USA Today), the New York Times best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and A Crack in the Edge of the World delves deeply into the long, complicated story of a body of water that has been at the center of western civilization. “A focal point, an axis, a fulcrum, around which the power and influence of modern world has long been distributed,” he writes, “the Atlantic existed in equipoise between the blocs of power and cultural influence that have shaped the modern world. It is an entity that links them, it unites them, and in some indescribable way also defines them.”

About the Author:

“An extraordinarily graceful writer” (Time), Simon Winchester is an author, journalist and broadcaster of enviable range. His many books include The Man Who Loved China, Krakatoa, and The Map that Changed the World. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth the II in 2006. Taking readers places they don’t expect to go, Atlantic is the kind of entertaining and erudite book that only Simon Winchester could have written.