LQ Podcast

#42 Out to Sea with Lewis Lapham (Part Two)

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Travel the Caribbean Sea, visit Venezuelan mines, contend with corrupt customs officials, and come up against an incompetent treasure hunter in Lewis Lapham’s stories of his adventures at sea.

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