Guns, Germs and Steel
The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:30th Apr '98
Should be back in stock very soon
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years.
'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens
Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**
'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens
Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?
Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians.
An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world.
'The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion' The Times
The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion * The Times *
A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past * Nature *
A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale * Observer *
This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind -- Yuval Noah Harari * Week *
Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible * Sunday Telegraph *
- Winner of Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1998
- Winner of Rhone-Poulenc Science Books Prize 1998
ISBN: 9780099302780
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 39mm
Weight: 516g
592 pages