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Guns, Germs and Steel :The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
Guns, Germs and Steel :The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
paperback
Published:
30 April, 1998
Description
**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
Prizes
Winner of Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1998,Winner of Rhone-Poulenc Science Books Prize 1998
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099302780 |
| ISBN10 | 0099302780 |
| Number Of Pages | 592 |
| Item Weight | 514 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 38 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
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, author of Sapiens *
Monumental and monumentally good -- William Leith, 4 stars * Scotsman *
Diamond's sideways-on view of human development may well establish its author as one of the very few scientists to have changed the way we think about history * Sunday Telegraph *
A book of big questions, and big answers -- Yuval Noah Harari * Geographical *
One of the best books I've reviewed this year. -- Lucille Turner * Bookmunch *
GoodReads Reviews
Author's Bio
Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World UntilYesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.