This week I’d like to share an essay that was first published a few months ago for a quarterly magazine called South Writ Large. Until one of its editors, the historian Amanda Bellows, asked me to write a piece for an issue themed around water1, I did not know of the magazine.2 But I was a fan of Amanda’s excellent book, The Explorers, a New History of th…
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