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The World: A Family History of Humanity

By Simon Sebag Montefiore
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$35.00
By Simon Sebag Montefiore
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For readers who want to know everything about everything — The World is humanity’s history told through time and family trees. Cinematic triumphs, betrayals, love affairs and even all-out war — woven through 1300 pages of stories from names you’ll know to those you’ll be fascinated to see for the first time.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The Romanovs

A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Smithsonian

“Succession meets Game of Thrones.” —The Spectator • “The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that both entertains and informs.” —The Economist, Best Books of the Year

Around 950,000 years ago, a family ...

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