More from KUOW Arts Stories Of The Pacific Ocean KUOW | By Ross Reynolds, Amina Al-Sadi Published November 5, 2015 at 1:52 PM AKST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 8:08 KUOW Photo/Kara McDermott File photo. Ross Reynolds talks to writer Simon Winchester about his book "Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers."