4min chapter

Longform cover image

Episode 531: David Grann

Longform

CHAPTER

How to Fathom the Life of a Claustrophobic Person

When you decide to take on a story that happened, I mean centuries and centuries ago, you are left with in some ways a perfect storm. How do you get close to their lives? They're all deeply fallible but interesting humans. There was a surprising amount of correspondence and journals and then log books. Some of these journals and records survived the typhoon,. Some went around the world, and a lot of them were daily accounts.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode