A History of the World
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A History of the World
Buy Now for $33.99
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Marr
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David Timson
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By:
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Andrew Marr
About this listen
Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best.
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, political journalist 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.
A History of the World 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.’
Frustratingly, you wish the book would delve deeper in to each component of the human timeline, but that would add years to the listening time.
Be careful when listening to this on your way or from work....you may intentionally miss your stop or stay in the car park longer just to hear the rest of the story.
So good, I wish it was longer.
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top read
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Fascinating and well written/read.
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Andrew Marr has managed to blend the microscopic with the macroscopic in this fascinating and compassionate work on the history of our world.What did you like best about this story?
I was engrossed by the up-closeness of the narrative style particularly the way Marr gets under the skin of both the characters and the times that inform our human journey.What does Andrew Marr and David Timson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
The narrator's tone draws out the quirks and humour of Marr's anecdotes so that as a listener I felt I was in the presence of a masterful story-teller.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
The huge scope of this work makes listening in one sitting impossible - although perfect perhaps for a long train ride or tedious bus journey.Any additional comments?
Andrew Marr excels at weaving the threads of history into a Bayeux- like tapestry of colour, line, texture and form while at the same time bring a wise, incisive order to history's ever-changing tableaux.Riveting Romp through History
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Pure enjoyment
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