Simon Winchester recalls the time — he was not yet three — when, stepping into his rubber boot, he was stung by a wasp.
He rates this penetrating moment as his first “acquisition of knowledge.” Readers of his many books may thank that wasp for starting Winchester on his ever-widening path to further knowledge.
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