Pacific
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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- Simon Winchester has written several great books that I've thoroughly enjoyed over the years. He's one of my favorite non-fiction authors.
A pair of books called The Atlantic and The Pacific; detailing the history of the ocean, people in it and around it. The Perfectionists, about precision engineering
- The book "Pacific" by Simon Winchester has an educational description of this event, contextualized in the broader story of how the DMZ came to be.
- > Simon Winchester discusses how Cape Bojador [1] was impassible until 1443 (in his book Atlantic [2])
He also wrote Pacific. :)
