Guns, Germs and Steel

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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 ground-breaking and humane work of popular science.

“Monumental and monumentally good”

A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale Observer Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible Sunday Telegraph A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past Nature A book of big questions, and big answers Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens -- William Leith, 4 stars Scotsman

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.