The Klencke Atlas is the world's largest book and it's soon to go on public display for the first time in 350 years.
Host Liane Hansen speaks with the curator of Antiquarian Mapping at the British Library in London, Tom Harper, about the atlas and the Library's upcoming map exhibit.
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