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: 516 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 39 mm
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
From the latest data available from research in various sectors a historical narrative involving all sectors of the worlds continents is covered.
Please sign in to write a review
Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App?