"""One of the world's most widely read historians, Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. Schama has been described as a """"scholar-artist [who]...marries jewel-like colouring of character, place and period with the iron grip of a strong pulsed narrative"""".  His influential books include A History of Britain, Landscape and Memory, and Rough Crossings.   He was joined at NZ Post Writers & Readers Week by Sean Plunket."""
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