A Brief History of the Atlantic

By: Jeremy Black

Narrated by: Roger Davis

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and listenable book, Jeremy Black takes the listener through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world.

Black discusses the importance of the Atlantic in relation to world history as well as addressing topics such as those bravest to attempt to cross the ocean before Columbus, the beginnings of slavery from 1400-1600, the struggle for control between empires in the 1600s, the way technology adapted with steamships to telegraph cables, the battle of the Falkland and the Cold War.

Black also touches on the Atlantic we know today, and the struggles it faces due to urgent global issues including climate change, pollution and the trials of the economic rise in the Indo-Pacific world. 

If you have ever yearned to know more about this famed and vital ocean, this clear and concise history will be a key as one of the first of its kind on its evolution to becoming an established world ocean.

©2022 Jeremy Black (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK

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The author calls this wonderful audio book “Brief.” But I found it ideal. Black tells a story that is comprehensive, informative, and largely enjoyable to hear (the section on the slave trade was candid, unsparing, and thoroughly researched. Black uses the slavers’ own words to reveal this execrable treatment of fellow humans).

Roger Davis reads with a voice that I would love to have narrate my life. I could listen to him read anything for days.

great story well thought out and researched...can'

so much information over the centuries of transatlantic travel...interestingly the African perspective is discussed and fairly considered