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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
Written by Adam Nicolson
Narrated by Leighton Pugh
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This geography of the ancient world takes us to the dawn of investigative thought and a nexus of cross-cultural connection, making old questions new again.
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Adam Nicolson
Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives at Sissinghust Castle in Kent.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow! Such clarity. I felt smarter just listening to his ideas. Loved the idea of a maritime culture’s influence (boats/waves/movement/wealth) on western philosophy. And like reading The Silk Roads:A New History , horrified at the role of slavery. Loved listening to it!