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\nWinchester<\/a>’s ruminative prose is capable of keeping any amount of Atlantic trivia afloat, from memories of crossing it by liner in 1963 to the horrors of the slave trade, from the Anglo-Saxon poem “The Seafarer<\/i>”<\/a> to Churchill and Roosevelt meeting at sea to discuss the Atlantic Charter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Later, Winchester strikes a more sombre, admonitory note, meditating on the melting ice caps and the impact of climate change on coastal cities, and finally imagining the death of this “grey-green vastness” in “about 170 million years”.<\/span><\/p>\n

 
\nAtlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
\n<\/span><\/i><\/b>Simon Winchester
\nHarper Press, 2011<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

— By Ian Pindar<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/
\n<\/a>
\nCopyright © Guardian News & Media, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

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