Book Talk: Wendell McConnaha - Losing Sight of the Shore
Losing Sight of the Shore Book Talk with Wendell McConnaha
December 7th, 2025
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Free, RSVP Required
(RSVP includes Museum access)
A fascinating history of the lives of five Scottish medical explorers set in the context of British dominance in exploration, Wendell McConnaha's work Losing Sight of the Shore takes the reader through the profiles five medical explorers in detail, this is not a biography but a history which aims to understand and explain the ideology and philosophy of agroup of Edinburgh-trained physicians and surgeons; and how their interaction within the political, cultural, intellectual, and social context of the time helped define the British Imperial Century.
Books will be available for signing and purchase.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3301674-0
