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A history of mankind....,
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This review is from: An Illustrated Short History of the World (Hardcover)
A history of mankind, prologued with the creation & prehistory of the world and epilogued with the future of mankind after the world war.His views of the world and history reflect the author's Victorian mindset; very educated for his day. He commences his history of mankind with the beginnings of races, language and their migrations. Unique and different from any writings today. A must read for all history buffs, and refreshing in originality. Extremely well written, sequential and easy to absorb.
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A Good Victorian look at History,
By David D. Lawson "A Legend in his own mind" (The Peoples Republic of California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: An Illustrated Short History of the World (Hardcover)
Mr. Welles is one of my all time favorite authors. My parents being a lot smarter than I ever hope to be gave me this book many decades ago. From it, I developed a love of history. While it is a old book and lacks a non eurocentric view it is a good history book none the less. I used it a lot at University and found it to be very useful resource tool. But I would not recommend it for any light reading very soon.
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An Illustrated Short History of the World by H. G. Wells (Hardcover - Oct. 1987)
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