Guns, Germs and Steel

Monumental and monumentally good – William Leith, 4 stars * Scotsman *A book of big questions, and big answers * Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens *A book of remarkable scope… One of the most important and readable works on the human past * Nature *Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible * Sunday Telegraph *A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale * Observer *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 *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 *This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind – Yuval Noah Harari * Week *

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.