<p><b>**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**</b><br><b><br> 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of <i>Sapiens</i></b> <p> <b>Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?</b> <p> Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. <p> An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, <i>Guns, Germs and Steel</i> is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world. <p><b>'</b><b>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' <i>The Times</i></b></p>