A Little History of the World

Discover the story of humanity's achievements and frailties in this timeless account of world history. With a doctorate in art history, Ernst Gombrich completed this engaging and lively history of the world for younger readers in just six weeks, and now it's available in seventeen languages. In A Little History of the World, Gombrich covers wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the limitations of science in forty concise chapters. This is not a text dominated by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries. Illustrated and superbly designed, this is a book to be savored and collected.