Outposts.OUTPOSTS. Simon Winchester Simon Winchester, OBE (born September 28, 1944), is a British author and journalist. Winchester studied geology at St Catherine's College, Oxford before working in Africa and on offshore oil rigs. . 1985/2005. Read by the author. Abridged. 6 cds. 7 hrs. Harper Collins. 0-06-079718-5. $29.95. Cardboard; content, author notes. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. Is there anything left of the British Empire British Empire, overseas territories linked to Great Britain in a variety of constitutional relationships, established over a period of three centuries. The establishment of the empire resulted primarily from commercial and political motives and emigration movements ? Winchester sets out to find just where the Royal Empire rules in today's world. There isn't much left but he travels 100,000 miles in several years to the far ends of the earth to answer this question, with great humor and wit. We travel with him to strange outposts in the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. , to Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha (trĭs`tăn də k  `nə), group of volcanic islands in the S Atlantic, about midway between S Africa and S America. , Gibraltar, Ascension Island Ascension Island, Caroline Islands: see Pohnpei. , St. Helena, and other rocky crags. Each unique place has its own interpretation of being British. The author is also the reader, and he does so with a quiet understated Britishness. He is quite a storyteller and as he tells us the history of each place, he builds up a wonderful mental picture that sends us to an atlas to find out where this special speck of the Empire might be. All ages will be caught up in the adventure of it all. These are remote places made real at last. Razelle Overmire, San Francisco, CA J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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