The Great Story of the Ocean: The Atlantic

The Chronicle of the exploration and conquest of the boundless World Ocean is a chronicle of courage, enterprise, and perseverance. At the heart of the grand concept of the popular French author Жорж Блон is Man and the Sea, linked by many shades of meaning: from open confrontation to an almost mystical attraction. In a sense, great navigators became captives of an element that had seized their hearts: no matter how expeditions turned out, with all their hardships and dangers, they again and again longed for the sea—toward storms, risk, and discoveries. Columbus, Magellan, Heyerdahl—as once before the Vikings and the Phoenicians—were obsessed with the sea, with the dream of new routes and unknown lands. It is about these ocean conquerors that Жорж Блон’s maritime epic tells.

In this edition, the narrative about one of the largest oceans on the planet—the Atlantic—has been supplemented with reproductions of paintings, engravings, maps, and photographs, that is, historical images echoing the author’s gripping plots. In addition, the book is provided with a comprehensive reference apparatus: maps, dictionaries of names and of maritime terms, as well as the names of ships and aircraft.