num_pages: 492
description: Tells the story of the world's people. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of it coming together again in centuries. It recreates human experience in varied forms, describing human life at both its grandest and domestic levels.
language: English
title: A Very Short History of the World
titlecomplete: A Very Short History of the World
genres: Historical, History, Anthropology, Science, Reference, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 423
publisher: Allen Lane