Guns Germs & Steel

Diamond, Jared

£10.99

This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world’s most explosive diversions.

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Publish Date: 10/01/2019

Description

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this 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 groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.

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Additional information

Weight 505 g
Dimensions 178 × 129 × 41 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

ix, 638 , 32 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

303.4 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K