Episode 531: David Grann
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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.
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