THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE A SHORT HISTORY OF everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren’t: as you will see, the answers to the question don’t involve human racial differences at all. The book’s emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible. Most books that set out to recount world history concentrate on histories of literate Eurasian and North African societies.

Today's book is Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond. Diamond is the author of Collapse, The Third Chimpanzee, and many more.

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Welcome to The Best Audiobooks, where we publish free audiobook excerpts from bestselling books, both fiction and nonfiction. The goal of each episode is to teach you something you didn't know, or to tell a story, and give you an accurate feel for that particular audiobook. Currently, audiobook samples are not easy to find, nor curated or helpful. And because Audible membership is expensive and purchasing individual audiobooks even more so, I decided to create this podcast. It's a hobby, a passion project of sorts :)

Featured authors include Malcolm Gladwell, Ernest Hemingway, Jared Diamond, Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Foster Wallace and many more. There will be at least two new books every week.

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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me - Ralph Waldo Emerson