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Pacific. The Ocean of the Future - Winchester Simon
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Pacific. The Ocean of the Future
Type : Books
SKU: VV1483220
ISBN: 9780007550777
Pages: 492
Cover: Paperback
Year: 2016
Publisher: William Collins (William Collins)
Your Price: $114.33
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Краткая аннотация:
Аннотация к книге "Pacific. The Ocean of the Future" Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of water, and – in matters economic, political and military – the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It is the stuff of the towering Captain Cook and his wide-ranging network of exploring voyages, Robert Louis Stevenson and Admiral Halsey. It is the place of Paul Gauguin and the explosion of the largest-ever American atomic bomb, on Bikini atoll, in 1951. It has an astonishing recent past, an uncertain present and a hugely important future. The ocean and its peoples are the new lifeblood, fizz and thrill of America – which draws so many of its minds and so much of its manners from the sea – while the inexorable rise of the ancient center of the world, China, is a fixating fascination. The presence of rogue states – North Korea most notoriously today – suggest that the... |
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