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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 (edició 2015)

de Simon Winchester (Autor)

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One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015

Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.

As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West coast, including Seattle, San Francisco, and the long cluster of towns down the Silicon Valley.

Today, the Pacific is ascendant. Its geological history has long transformed usâ??tremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamisâ??but its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellan's sixteenth-century circumnavigation. It is a natural wonder whose most fascinating history is currently being made.

In telling the story of the Pacific, Simon Winchester takes us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, and to the many small islands and archipelagos that lie in between. He observes the fall of a dictator in Manila, visits aboriginals in northern Queensland, and is jailed in Tierra del Fuego, the land at the end of the world. His journey encompasses a trip down the Alaska Highway, a stop at the isolated Pitcairn Islands, a trek across South Korea and a glimpse of its mysterious northern neighbor.

Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives… (més)

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Títol:Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Autors:Simon Winchester (Autor)
Informació:Harper (2015), Edition: Illustrated, 512 pages
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We listened to the Audible version read by the author. Very informative and a pleasure to hear. ( )
  jemisonreads | Jan 22, 2024 |
A competent and engaging narrative history of the Pacific, though focused on recent times as he talks of events post-1950. He does have to reach backward in time, though, to provide background. winchester is a good wordsmith, a turner of phrases, erudite (trending towards pretentious), and interesting. There is so much he leaves out, but all leavened with so many tidbits of trivia and history that you don't mind.

Winchester's prime fault is a wholly reflexive attitude that colonialism must be bad, which means, ipso facto, the West must be bad. Western atrocities are condemned, though Japan's Empire or Chinese perfidy is either left unexplored or excused. Australian worries about unchecked immigration, like all good liberals, Winchester poo poos with a wave of the pen. Anyone against immigration must be a knuckle-dragging Luddite, right? The chapter on China's expansion into international waters was scary.

A good read. ( )
  tuckerresearch | Nov 28, 2023 |
I have read a couple of other books by this author, and he did an outstanding job of laying out the history of what happened. Krakatoa, and The Professor and The Madman, to name two.
I hesitated buying Pacific because the topic seemed far too broad to be covered in one single book, but it was in paperback and so I picked it up. Well the topic isn't to broad if you start when America becomes a superpower up to today and blame the majority of what is wrong with the world and specifically everything bad that has happened in the Pacific on America.
The author can write, of that there is no debate. But if you are going to write about history, I really don't need to constantly be berated by the author's beliefs and point of view. I get it, Mr Winchester, you are a hardcore liberal, to whom nearly every bad thing that has happened certainly as it pertains to the pacific can be blamed on America. Not surprising coming from a pompous British socialist, but kind of surprising since you now live in America. I am sorry Mr Winchester but the sun set long ago on the disaster known as the British empire. Try not to forget that had America not come to your rescue, Twice, your country would be a quaint island in the German empire.
You get a taste of the authors intense left leanings in the prologue when he states he once had a secret sympathy for N Korea who had plotted their own path to economic and cultural independence.
Thanks to this book I now know it was wrong for America to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese, wrong to continue to develop nuclear weapons WRONG to test them, and that the Cold War was a horrible horrible time because well because it was. Even though we never had the much predicted nuclear war that liberals kept saying would happen. Was the nuclear program of Russia and America an enormous waste of money? Yes. Does anyone truly believe the Russians would not build bombs if America stoped building them? NO.
Also sprinkled throughout the book, anywhere the author can attempt to blame or state it, claim a link, or a causality, is his total acceptance of climate change specifically mans contribution to it. Again he is entitled to his beliefs but I don't need to be reminded of it, over and over again.
So to recap: America is bad, nuclear weapons and the testing of them is bad, and climate change is the result of man. Immigration and immigrants need to be taken in by countries like Australia and America because, well they just need to be, no matter how incompatible the immigrants with be for the country.
Thanks Simon.
This would have been such a better book if you had left out your opinions, formulated with hindsight, and stuck to telling what happened. But every chapter contains your feelings and beliefs, which, when I am reading history, I don't care about your beliefs, unless you state them as such, (the author doesn't he just adds them to the narrative as if it is common sense or a known fact) and you are in some way an expert. Which as far as I can tell you are not an expert. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
Wide ranging commentary on history and ecology of the ocean ( )
  siri51 | Apr 4, 2022 |
nonfiction hodge podge. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
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One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015

Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.

As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West coast, including Seattle, San Francisco, and the long cluster of towns down the Silicon Valley.

Today, the Pacific is ascendant. Its geological history has long transformed usâ??tremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamisâ??but its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellan's sixteenth-century circumnavigation. It is a natural wonder whose most fascinating history is currently being made.

In telling the story of the Pacific, Simon Winchester takes us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, and to the many small islands and archipelagos that lie in between. He observes the fall of a dictator in Manila, visits aboriginals in northern Queensland, and is jailed in Tierra del Fuego, the land at the end of the world. His journey encompasses a trip down the Alaska Highway, a stop at the isolated Pitcairn Islands, a trek across South Korea and a glimpse of its mysterious northern neighbor.

Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives

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