Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book,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 remains a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science.
This edition includes a new afterword from the author.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099302780Number of pages: 592Weight: 512 gDimensions: 197 x 129 x 40 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'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
'A book of big questions,and big answers.'- Yuval Noah Harari,bestselling author of Sapiens
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