Water Talks podcast: Big Five-interview Russell Shorto
Russell Shorto is an American writer and a historian, my predecessor as director of the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam and the author of ‘The Island at the Center of the World’, about New York in the seventeenth century when it was the Dutch colony New Amsterdam. He recently founded the New Amsterdam Project, under the auspices of the New York Historical Society. For this podcast he walked me through 17th century New York – or rather, New Amsterdam – and told me about the city’s intimate relationship with the water around it.
This is the Big Five, the companion series to...