The Telegraph has a book review on Simon Winchester’s new book that he will be discussing at Live Talks on November 18 at Track 16. Here’s an excerpt:

As knowledge of the ocean and what lay beyond grew, men set out to reap its fortunes. For Simon Winchester the Atlantic is to modern civilisation what the Mediterranean was to the ancients: “The North Atlantic and many of the countries bordering it were witness to the construction of many of the foundations, ties and crossbeams of what we now know as the modern world.”