Traveling By Book

To The Best Of Our Knowledge vor 5 Jahren

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning public radio show that dives headlong into the deeper end of ideas.

Gesellschaft & Kultur

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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'