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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

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.