Editions

Guns, Germs and Steel

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784873639

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 41mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 505g

  • RRP: £10.99

Guns, Germs and Steel

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.

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 groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.

PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784873639

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 41mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 505g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • "Monumental and monumentally good"

    William Leith, 4 stars, Scotsman

  • "A book of big questions, and big answers"

    Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

  • "A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past"

    Nature

  • "Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible"

    Sunday Telegraph

  • "A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale"

    Observer

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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 UntilYesterday. 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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