Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition) - Softcover

"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)

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?

In his 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.

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