Stephen R. Bown is the author of several critically acclaimed, award-winning books on the history of exploration, science, and ideas. These include Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900; Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver; and Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail. The Globe and Mail has called him “Canada’s Simon Winchester.” Bown lives with his wife and two children in the Canadian Rockies.
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