Simon Winchester, master raconteur, tells a series of gripping and little-known tales of the Atlantic, the ocean he calls "the inland sea of modern civilization." Simon Winchester is a bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster. Prior to writing, he studied and worked in the field of geology.
Simon Winchester studied geology at Oxford and has written for *Conde Nast Traveler*, *Smithsonian*, and *National Geographic*. He is the author of *A Crack in the Edge of the World*, *Krakatoa*, *The Map That Changed the World*, *The Professor and the Madman*, *The Fracture Zone*, *Outposts*, *Korea*, among many other titles. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.