Guns, Germs and Steel (Paperback)

Jared Diamond (author)

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Paperback 592 Pages
Published: 30/04/1998

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Synopsis

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 Publishing
ISBN: 9780099302780
Number of pages: 592
Weight: 512 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 37 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