An edition of Pacific
(2015)
Pacific
silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers
First HarperLuxe edition.
by Simon Winchester
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.
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Pacific: silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers
2015
in English
- First HarperLuxe edition.
0062421638 9780062421630
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Table of Contents
The great thermonuclear sea
Mr. Ibuka's radio revolution
The ecstasies of wave riding
A dire and dangerous irritation
Farewell, all my friends and foes
Echoes of distant thunder
How goes the lucky country?
The fires in the deep
A fragile and uncertain sea
Of masters and commanders
Epilogue: the call of the running tide.
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Incudes bibliographical references (pages 659-693).
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