Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Pulitzer Prize Winner, General Nonfiction, 1998

In 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 patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.

©1997 Jared Diamond (P)2001 HighBridge Company

Critic reviews

"The scope and explanatory power of this book are astounding." (The New Yorker)

"Guns, Germs, and Steel is an artful, informative, and delightful book....There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject." (The New York Review of Books)

Boring narrator

I may have to return this book because the narrator would constantly put me to sleep. It felt like a 5 hour dry lecture. Sorry narrator

Any believe it took me so long to finally listen

Should have read this when it first came out. Wonderful book when it changes the way I consider the world around me.

Guns, Germs, and Steel, intresting....

I found this book wanting for better examples, but in whole, a good read.

Amazingly entertaining

You'd think the subject matter would lend itself to a slow, plodding book - it doesn't. It's compelling an interesting.

For a layman's curiosity in evolution of civility.

Interesting read. This books offers historical perspectives to the modern classification of societies from the first to the third worlds.