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Mar 2019
40m 51s

Who Was Christopher Columbus? With Profe...

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
About this episode

1492 was a truly wild year, and there is no one better to talk about it with than one of Patrick's favorite historians, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of many excellent books on Columbus and exploration.

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