It’s become a landmark, best-seller book that would win the Pulitzer Prize and be filmed by National Geographic for PBS. The first step towards civilization is the move from nomadic hunter-gatherer to rooted agrarian society. Colin Renfrew, Nature The prologue opens with an account of Diamond's conversation with Yali, a New Guinean politician. Addeddate 2014-03-03 04:57:17 Identifier fp_Jared_Diamond-Guns_Germs_and_Steel Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1xd3gd97 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ppi 300 Scanner Equally important, its east–west orientation has allowed groups of people to wander and empires to conquer from one end of the continent to the other while staying at the same latitude. I have only read the introduction and the first chapter, but already given up. 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