Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Diamond, Jared

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.

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Why did history unfold so differently on different continents - the author contends that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans and aboriginal Australians. 480 pages 32 pages of black and white photographs and maps in the text. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning.
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