Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond with Grover Gardner (Narrator)

5 hours, 58 minutes first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous slow-paced

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Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest pattern...

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