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?
Monumental and monumentally good
A book of big questions, and big answers
A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past
Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible
A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale
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 Until Yesterday. 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.