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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention

By Ben Wilson
Narrated by: John Sackville
Unabridged — 17 hours, 7 minutes
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$25.00
By Ben Wilson
Narrated by: John Sackville
Unabridged — 17 hours, 7 minutes
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In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations.

“A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time-dazzling.” -The Wall Street Journal


During the two hundred millennia of humanity's existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, cities created such a flouri...