Guns, Germs, and Steel on PBS
A PBS documentary version of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel is airing starting tonight in the US.
If you haven't heard of it or read the book, here's a synopsis:
Here's the PBS show's website.
If you haven't heard of it or read the book, here's a synopsis:
Quote:
Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years ? from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century.
Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet?
Why didn't the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead?
Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East?
Why did farming never emerge in Australia?
And why are the tropics now the capital of global poverty?
Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years ? from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century.
Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet?
Why didn't the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead?
Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East?
Why did farming never emerge in Australia?
And why are the tropics now the capital of global poverty?
Here's the PBS show's website.
Comments
I like Jared Diamond, he is 70 years old now, but he looks young.
here is a video interview with Stephen Colbert, ( May 21, 2007)
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/t...pleSyndication