Politicians and scholars alike have dubbed the twenty-first century “The Pacific Century” to reflect the profound shift in global power toward the Asia-Pacific. In PACIFIC: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers, Simon Winchester offers a detailed history of the Pacific from the atomic age to today.
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PACIFIC: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs
with Simon Winchester
Monday, November 23, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Covington & Burling LLP, New York City
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| Politicians and scholars alike have dubbed the twenty-first century “The Pacific Century” to reflect the profound shift in global power toward the Asia-Pacific. In PACIFIC: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers, Simon Winchester offers a detailed history of the Pacific from the atomic age to today. In addition, Mr. Winchester explores how the rise of China will affect the Pacific region. Join Simon Winchester as he discusses his book with the National Committee on November 23 in New York City. |
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 Simon Winchester, author, journalist, and broadcaster, has worked as a foreign correspondent for most of his career, although he graduated from Oxford in 1966 with a degree in geology and spent a year working as a geologist in the Ruwenzori Mountains in western Uganda, and on oil rigs in the North Sea, before taking his first newspaper job in 1967.
He now principally concentrates on writing books, although he contributes to a number of American and British magazines, newspapers, and journals, including Harper’s, The Smithsonian, The National Geographic Magazine, The Spectator, Granta, The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly. He was appointed Asia-Pacific editor of Conde Nast Traveler at its inception in 1987, later becoming editor-at-large. His writings have won him several awards, including Britain’s Journalist of the Year
Mr. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by HM The Queen in 2006. He received the honor in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Simon Winchester lives in western Massachusetts. |
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