![]() ![]() Breathtaking in scope, this thought-provoking masterwork remains one of the most readable and rewarding of its kind. Wells brings his monumental learning and penetrating historical insight to bear on the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America, the Industrial Revolution, and a host of other subjects. ![]() However, I couldnt get 'The Outline History'. ![]() Also, I wanted to read history of mankind from a euro-centric point of view. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of World War I, A Short History of the World is an engrossing account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Originally, I wanted to read 'The Outline History' by H.G.Wells because it inspired Nehru to write his encyclopedic book 'The Glimpses of World History' which gives a panoramic narrative of the history of mankind. Wells 6 Paperback 2 offers from 12. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. of 1 Start over A Short History of The World: World History by H.G. Of the more than one hundred books that H. Wells published this popular history of planet Earth in 1922, the highest off the surface humans had reached was seven miles, barely 37,000 feet. ![]() First editions are uncommon, signed examples exceptionally so. With an original pamphlet from the publisher laid in. First edition of Wells’ classic work, which Albert Einstein recommended for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilization. ![]()
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