Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

Jul 2001 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Grover Gardner

About this audiobook

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 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.

Ratings and reviews

I finished reading this book while I was still in Collage at Cornell University. I learned many things regarding how culture and Geography played important roles on shaping human history. And sometimes coincidence or random chance events also contributed.

About the author

Grover Gardner was named one of the Best Voices of the Century as well as a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, and he has received over twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has also won two coveted Audie Awards, as well as being a three-time finalist.