"I was so surprised and quite like tickled by how many things are in our like daily lexicon that come from these maple expeditions," she says. "It's always undergirding us and it's always flowing in some way, whether we try to suppress it or you're ignorant of it." The book is based on a true story about the Battle of Trafalgar.
David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.
“I became very haunted by the stories that [nations] don't tell. Nations and empires preserve their powers not only by the stories they tell, but also by the stories they leave out. … Early in my career, if I came across the silences in a story, I might not have highlighted them, because I thought, Well, there's nothing to tell there. And now I try to let the silences speak.”
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