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Sam Knight

Sam Knight is a London-based staff writer at The New Yorker . His first book is “ The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold .”

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The Shipwreck Detective
a reporter at large ·

The maritime researcher Nigel Pickford looks for sunken treasure and has helped to discover dozens of historic shipwrecks, containing millions of dollars’ worth of recovered cargoes. Sam Knight reports.

The Bouvier Affair
a reporter at large ·

Sam Knight on the shipper turned art dealer Yves Bouvier, the Geneva Freeport, Natural Le Coultre, and a lawsuit with Dmitry Rybolovlev.