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Episode 75: Simon Winchester

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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Introduction

Simon Winchester's new book is Land, How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. Winchester talks about his acquisition of 123 and 1-quarter acres in Dutchess County, New York. Winchester: "It was on the north-facing side of a mountain, and there were a couple of little rivers"

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