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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by Simon Winchester
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061702587
- ISBN 13
- 9780061702587
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper, November 2010. Hardcover. First Edition, Third printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv + 495 pages. illustrations. maps.
Contents: Preface: The leaving of Liverpool -- Prologue: The beginnings of its goings on -- From the purple isles of Mogador -- All the shoals and deeps within -- Oh! the beauty and the might of it -- Here the sea of pity lies -- They that occupy their business on great waters -- Change and decay all around the sea -- The storm surge carries all before -- Epilogue: Falls the shadow, fades the sea.
Contents: Preface: The leaving of Liverpool -- Prologue: The beginnings of its goings on -- From the purple isles of Mogador -- All the shoals and deeps within -- Oh! the beauty and the might of it -- Here the sea of pity lies -- They that occupy their business on great waters -- Change and decay all around the sea -- The storm surge carries all before -- Epilogue: Falls the shadow, fades the sea.
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- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000003152
- Title
- Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
- Author
- Simon Winchester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Third Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0061702587
- ISBN 13
- 9780061702587
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- November 2010
- Keywords
- history, travel, folklore, geography, battles, storms, wars, Atlantic Ocean
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration, Expeditions, and Discoveries; History;
- Size
- 8vo
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About Books of the World
Finding new homes for the library I collected over five decades of travel around the world.
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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