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In our latest piece of bonus content, showrunner Pete Musto talks with Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto about the spirit of adventure, the human cost of exploration and the mythmaking that happens around people who seek the forbidden and the unknown.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a professor of Ancient, Early Modern, Medieval, and Modern History at the University of Notre-Dame. Professor Fernández-Armesto earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford, and has also taught at Tufts University and the University of London. He is author of dozens of books on history, “Oxford History of the World” several focusing specifically on famous explorers, including “Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan,” “Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America,” and “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration,” for which he won the 2007 World History Association Book Prize.
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In our latest piece of bonus content, showrunner Pete Musto talks with Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto about the spirit of adventure, the human cost of exploration and the mythmaking that happens around people who seek the forbidden and the unknown.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a professor of Ancient, Early Modern, Medieval, and Modern History at the University of Notre-Dame. Professor Fernández-Armesto earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford, and has also taught at Tufts University and the University of London. He is author of dozens of books on history, “Oxford History of the World” several focusing specifically on famous explorers, including “Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan,” “Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America,” and “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration,” for which he won the 2007 World History Association Book Prize.
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