Most of what is sound in the book isn’t new; Zinsser, Van Loon, and McNeill had already covered that ground. If you’ve read them, Diamond doesn’t add much, and the geographic reductionism isn’t very persuasive.
Most of what is sound in the book isn’t new; Zinsser, Van Loon, and McNeill had already covered that ground. If you’ve read them, Diamond doesn’t add much, and the geographic reductionism isn’t very persuasive.