From the earliest civilizations to the 21st century: a global journey through human history, published alongside a landmark BBC One television series. Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey, Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today's superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs. This is a book about the great change-makers of history and their times, people such as Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Galileo, and Mao, but it is also a book about us. For 'The better we understand how rulers lose touch with reality, or why revolutions produce dictators more often than they produce happiness, or why some parts of the world are richer than others, the easier it is to understand our own times.' Fresh, exciting and vividly listenable, this is popular history at its very best.
From the earliest civilizations to the 21st century: a global journey through human history, published alongside a landmark BBC One television series.
Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey, Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today's superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs. This is a book about the great change-makers of history and their times, people such as Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Galileo, and Mao, but it is also a book about us. For 'The better we understand how rulers lose touch with reality, or why revolutions produce dictators more often than they produce happiness, or why some parts of the world are richer than others, the easier it is to understand our own times.'
Fresh, exciting and vividly listenable, this is popular history at its very best.
Andrew Marr, best known for their work in the Historical genre, first debuted on our website in 2007 with the audiobook My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism, narrated by Andrew Marr. Additional titles -- including the latest, A History of the World, available in Unabridged format -- were subsequently added to our catalogue, and today make up a collection of 4 audiobooks -- or 43 hours of delectable storytelling from Marr for your listening pleasure! Their top selling work, A History of the World, masterfully narrated by Andrew Marr, is also available for download, alongside other popular favorites such as A History of the World, A History of Modern Britain and The Making of Modern Britain, narrated by the likes of Andrew Marr and Andrew Marr. To view our entire collection of 4 audiobooks from Andrew Marr, and to listen to samples, please visit the Andrew Marr audiobooks author page on DigitalAudiobooks.co.uk.
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