Ed Larson - To the Edges of the Earth

A Book with Legs

Smead Capital Management

Investing, Business, Management

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In this episode, Cole is joined by Ed Larson author of the book, To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration. Ed’s book takes a deep dive into the famous explorers who raced to reach some of the world’s most extreme destinations in 1909. It’s a story about the human spirit, an adventure into the unknown, and the journey to get there.

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0:00.0	You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management.
0:08.0	At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who fear stock market failure.
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0:26.2	Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead. I'm the president and a portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers and book junkies. It can be
0:31.7	said that leaders are readers and we believe books provide us a great source of information
0:35.5	for filtering what is and isn't
0:37.8	important for us as investors. Investing is the last great liberal art and the best way to spend a
0:42.9	lifetime of learning. This podcast is for readers, thinkers, business-minded people, and investors
0:48.2	who want to grow their knowledge from great authors and their writing. Charlie Munger often talks
0:52.6	about using multiple mental models and analysis. Our aim for this podcast is to help listeners Charlie Munger often talks about using multiple mental models and analysis.
0:55.6	Our aim for this podcast is to help listeners test Munger's theory in business, markets, and people.
1:00.9	I'm glad everyone has joined us for this episode of the podcast. We're going to talk about the
1:05.3	pinnacle of human endeavor and the adventures that struck out to do that. Ed Larson is joining
1:10.1	us to talk about his book
1:11.5	to the edges of the earth, 1909,
1:14.4	the Race for the Three Poles and the Climax of the Age of Exploration.
1:18.6	To give you a little background on Ed,
1:20.4	he currently holds the Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in law
1:23.4	and is a professor of history at Pepperdine University.
1:26.8	He has a PhD from the University of Madison, Wisconsin, and a lot degree from Harvard.
1:32.3	Ed is also a Pulitzer Prize winner in history.
1:35.8	He has written 13 other books, including his 2020 story, Franklin and Washington.
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