Talks at Google: Joyce Chaplin, "Round About the Earth"

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Published Aug 22, 2014

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth - by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, or going into orbit; even by using their own bodily power. In her most recent book, Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit, Joyce Chaplin, PhD, tells the first full history of around-the-world travel. Professor Chaplin is an award-winning author and the James Duncan Philips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. She visited Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss the book.

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