Jared Diamond's New York Times best-selling Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize. In The World Until Yesterday, Diamond holds a mirror up to modern society by examining traditional cultures such as the New Guinea Highlanders, the Inuit, and the Amazonian Indians. In a relatively short period of time, these cultures have largely disappeared—but Diamond believes they may still offer humanity lessons on how to live and survive as societies grow and evolve.
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Release date
March 3, 2016 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781470339456
- File size: 535560 KB
- Duration: 18:35:44
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Listeners interested in remote places of the world will enjoy this modern-day analysis on why some civilizations develop technology while others do not. Narrator Jay Snyder is a reasonable choice for this volume, which is grounded in anthropology, cultural analysis, and history. He manages capably the intricate sentences that explain the details of life for tribal people from New Guinea to Brazil. The explanations are dense, technical, and profound--fascinating for those who want to learn more about these societies at the edge of modernization. Snyder's tone is warm and personable. The listener can imagine him as an engaging professor; his rich baritone lends the detailed text an approachable quality it would lack with a drier reading. M.R. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
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