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Traveling By Book
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Sep 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Before the time of commercial flights and road trips, we traveled to far off places without taking a single step. All you had to do was open a book. From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports to anywhere.
Original Air Date: March 14, 2020
Guests:
Philip Pullman — Ruth Ozeki — Robert Macfarlane — Petina Gappah
Interviews In This Hour:
Philip Pullman on 'The Pocket Atlas of the World' — 'His Dark Materials' Author Philip Pullman On The Consciousness Of All Things — A Diary Becomes A Time Capsule — Ruth Ozeki on 'Kamikaze Diaries' — Petina Gappah on 'Persuasion' — The Empire Writes Back: Author Discusses Explorer David Livingstone's Complicated Legacy — Robert Macfarlane on 'The Living Mountain'
Original Air Date: March 14, 2020
Guests:
Philip Pullman — Ruth Ozeki — Robert Macfarlane — Petina Gappah
Interviews In This Hour:
Philip Pullman on 'The Pocket Atlas of the World' — 'His Dark Materials' Author Philip Pullman On The Consciousness Of All Things — A Diary Becomes A Time Capsule — Ruth Ozeki on 'Kamikaze Diaries' — Petina Gappah on 'Persuasion' — The Empire Writes Back: Author Discusses Explorer David Livingstone's Complicated Legacy — Robert Macfarlane on 'The Living Mountain'
Released:
Sep 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (50)
Decolonizing the Mind: Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cultures. To label them inferior. Music, arts, literature and of course language. In other words, it permeated everything. So how do you undo that? How do you unlearn what you’ve been forced to learn? by To The Best Of Our Knowledge