Literati Bookstore to host Bill Gates, Simon Winchester in virtual event
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
Posted Jan 15, 2021
Literati Bookstore on the corner of S. Fourth Ave. and E. Washington St. on Friday, July 18, 2014. (Melanie Maxwell | MLive file photo)ANN ARBOR NEWS
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ANN ARBOR, MI Literati Bookstore is hosting virtual events with Bill Gates and author Simon Winchester.
The popular downtown Ann Arbor bookstore is welcoming Winchester at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 25 for a discussion on his book “Land: how the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World.” Rick Fahle of PBS Books will join Winchester.
Tickets start at $31 and include a hardcover copy of the book, which can be shipped or picked up from Literati, and a signed bookplate. Access to the virtual event will be included with the ticket. Purchase tickets here.
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Land its ownership, its deep history, its uses and abuses forms the subject of best-selling historian Simon Winchester s new book,
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (HarperCollins, 2021)
, which, given the topic, inevitably feels pitifully short at 400 pages. The subject of land is, after all, the stories of land, and there are as many of those as there are people in the history of the world.
Winchester is thus forced to concentrate, to isolate certain aspects of humanity s association with land and, in one of the book s many real estate-related figures of speech, drill down on those aspects to the exclusion of others.
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