Ep. 09: Shifting Your Gaze

Postcards From Nowhere with Utsav Mamoria by IVM Podcasts

Dec 5, 201907:10Society & Culture

In the spring of 1790, a 29-year-old Frenchman wrote the weirdest travelogue one could ever imagine. He was so pleased with his writings, that he went on to write another one in 1798, which was no less weird. He pioneere...

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