On T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom by Thomas Edward Lawrence
writ large is a podcast about how books change the world. In each episode i talk with one of the world's leading scholars about one book that changed the course of history. For this episode, i sat down with professor charles stang to discuss seven pillars of wisdom. Thomas edward lawrence was born in wales in 18 88. He spent four years working as an archaeologist in northern syria for the british museum. Four years later, while he was still in the middle east, world war on began. During the war, he returned to the united kingdom after the war and wrote seven pillar of wisdom.
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