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Robert Wilson: 'The Explorer King' [51min]

Clarence King has been compared with both Indiana Jones and Howard Hughes. Robert Wilson's new biography, The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax -- Clarence King in the Old West (Scribner), describes his adventures as a scientist-explorer in the 1800s and uncovers why he's fallen into relative obscurity today. Wilson is editor of The American Scholar.
Read entire article at WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"