Human Race : 10 Centuries Of Change On Earth

Author: Ian Mortimer

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  • : October 2015
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InHuman Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth bestselling historian Ian Mortimer takes you on a whirlwind tour of the last ten centuries of Western history. It is a journey into a past vividly brought to life and bursting with ideas, that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which century saw the greatest change.


We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burnt to the ground by invaders, and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer, to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilisations came into conflict with each other on an epic scale. Here is a story of godly scientists, shrewd farmers, cold-hearted entrepreneurs and strong-minded women - a story of discovery, invention, revolution and cataclysmic shifts in perspective. Human Race  is a journey into the past like no other.


Our understanding of change will never be the same again, and the lessons we learn along the way are profound ones for us all.