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    How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
    How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
    How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
    Audiobook9 hours

    How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

    Written by Adam Nicolson

    Narrated by Leighton Pugh

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateOct 17, 2023
    ISBN9781666649017
    How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
    Author

    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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      Wow! 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!