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Hugo Brown explores the town famous for being the site where King Harold fell during the Battle of Hastings. Nowadays, it's a place to 'linger for tea and cake', he says.
WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, April 25, 2023 1859 Construction of the Suez Canal, a North-South waterway connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas, begins. It
David Grann's The Wager, the true story of the titular British warship's 1741 wreck on a desolate island south of Chile, has much to say about 18th-century naval life, the survival impulse, republicanism, and the breakdown of humanity under pressure—if you make it past the first half-dozen or so chapters.
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To write his latest book, David Grann traveled to the remote Pacific island where 18th century sailors turned to mutiny and murder. "A voyage always reveals the soul," he tells Esquire.