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'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?



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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 *
A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past * Nature *
A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale * Observer *
This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind -- Yuval Noah Harari * Week *
Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible * Sunday Telegraph *

Guns Germs and Steel

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 30 April 1998
      ISBN-13 9780099302780
      978-0099302780
      ISBN-10 0099302780
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

      Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?



      Trade Review
      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 *
      A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past * Nature *
      A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale * Observer *
      This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind -- Yuval Noah Harari * Week *
      Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible * Sunday Telegraph *

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