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.
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 *