Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers
Record details
- ISBN: 0062315420 (softcover)
- ISBN: 9780062315427 (softcover)
- ISBN: 0062315412 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780062315410 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xiv, 492 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-463) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | 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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Subject: | Winchester, Simon Travel Pacific Ocean Description and travel Ocean and civilization Pacific Ocean History Pacific Ocean Geography |
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