Guns, Germs and Steel - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Creased spine, secondhand wear.

Vintage, 1998

The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between haves and have-nots - never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics.. one of the most important and humane works of popular science...