The Story of a Special Map from Spain & Two New Books — 17 February 2023

The Story of a Special Map from Spain & Two New Books — 17 February 2023

Friday, 17 February, 2023

In this episode, we get excited about two books: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson and All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley. Then Dave tells a (true) tall tale about an extraordinary map of the New World that originated in Spain. [transcript]

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