Editions

Guns, Germs and Steel

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099302780

  • Length: 592  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 438g

  • RRP: £10.99

Guns, Germs and Steel

  • 20th Anniversary Edition

'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? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?

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 is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world.

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**

**Over One Million Copies Sold**

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099302780

  • Length: 592  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 438g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • 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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About the Author

Jared Diamond

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.

Jared Diamond

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