'A book of big questions & big answers' Yuval Noah Harari bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Jared Diamond puts the case that geography & biogeography not race moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans Asians Native Americans sub-Saharan Africans & aboriginal Australians An ambitious synthesis of history biology ecology & linguistics Guns Germs & Steel remains a ground-breaking & humane work of popular science