A History of the World in 100 Objects

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First edition, subsequent printing with '4' on copyright page. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of spine, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£30.00), internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 707pp. An extraordinary book, lavishly illustrated, from Neil MacGregor's ground breaking Radio Four series. The programme and the book take a dramatically different approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilizations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past world and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai Gorge in Africa, and ends with an object from the twenty-first century which represents the world we live in today. A tour de force. A heavy book, extra postage may be required. N° de ref. del artículo 002608

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Acerca del autor: Neil MacGregor was Director of the National Gallery, London from 1987 to 2002 and of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015. His previous books include A History of the World in 100 Objects, Shakespeare's Restless World and Germany: Memories of a Nation, all available in Penguin and now between them translated into more than a dozen languages. For his work on the BBC Radio 4 series, British Museum exhibition and book Germany: Memories of a Nation, he was awarded (in Germany) the Friedrich Gundolf Prize, the Goethe Medal and the German National Prize and (in the UK) the British Academy's Nayef Al-Radhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding. In 2010, he was made a member of the Order of Merit, the UK's highest civil honour. He is now Chair of the Steering Committee of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.