Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

DIAMOND, Jared.

Item Number: 125087

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

First edition of Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “best wishes, Jared Diamond.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Calvin Chu. Jacket Painting: Sir John Everett, Pizarro Seizing Peru, 1845. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.

Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles radically based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors arguably responsible for history's broadest patterns. Hailed by Berkeley economic historian Brad DeLong as a "work of complete and total genius", the book won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, Aventis Prize for Best Science Book, and was adapted into a National Geographic Society documentary in 2005.