Simon Winchester

Do the great oceans of the world have their own unique biographies? We’ll spend this hour with Simon Winchester, whose new book is “Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories” (HarperCollins, 2010).

Do the great oceans of the world have their own unique biographies? We’ll spend this hour with Simon Winchester, whose new book is “Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories” (HarperCollins, 2010).

How and when did the West’s fascination with Chinese civilization and technology begin? According to acclaimed author Simon Winchester, it all began in 1937 with Cambridge biochemist Joseph Needham. We’ll talk with Winchester about his new book “The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom” (Harper, 2008).