The New Penguin History of the World

London: Allen Lane. Very Good/Very Good. 2003. Hard Cover. 8vo Dimensions: 16 x 5.4 x 24.1 Cm 0713996110 Fourth revised edition ( 27 February 2003 ). Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Hardcover: 1248 pages clean and tight. One of the most extraordinary history bestsellers on the Penguin list, John Roberts' book has now been completely updated to the end of the last century and revised throughout to make sure it keeps its amazing appeal to a new generation of readers. For many of its half million or more readers around the globe, J.M. Roberts's PelI'ç'lIiII History of the World has been one of the great works of, history in' their lives.A book of extraordinar ambition, clarity, sense and style, it is, as Christopher Hibbert said on its first publication, 'At once entertaining and 'scholarly ... a book as challenging as it is consistently absorbing'. Completely overhauled, with large parts rewritten, The New Pengiii;i History of -Me World is now set to find countless new readers in the' twenty-first century. Roberts's book is exceptional in its genuinely global and comprehensive nature, showing the 'development of different civilizations through the ages: from our origins on the African savannah to Al) 2001. Like no other book, it succeeds in conveying the staggering diversity of the hunian experience across a vast range of climates and conditions. If there is one book anyone truly interested in history should read, it is this one. .