Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers audiobook runs 14.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Winchester (about 9.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 29 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 14.1 hours, it runs longer than 80% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester narrates 17 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 179 hours in all.
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
- The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
About as long, on the World shelf
800 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers is an audiobook by Simon Winchester: a 14.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Winchester, released October 27, 2015, on the World shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Winchester
- Released
- October 27, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World
- ISBN
- 9780062420060
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers audiobook?
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers runs 14.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.4 hours.
Is the Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers?
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers is narrated by Simon Winchester.
Is Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.4 hours, saving 4.7 hours.