Guns Germs And Steel Book Review

Guns, Germs, and Steel Book Review The book Guns, Germs, and Steel features the work of the author Jared Diamond. In his book, he mentions his answer to how different human societies became so diverse. Diamond doesn’t use racist answers, he gives an answer based on the geographical location of these diverse societies. He explains many concepts on how the location of a society can make them more diverse and more powerful than other societies. He shares many examples in history to support his thesis throughout the book.
Diamond’s thesis in Guns, Germs, and Steel, is that due to the geographical location of certain societies, it allowed these groups of people to become more developed than others throughout time. Diamond says this because he believes that due to the society’s location and available resources people developed differently to what was around them. He didn’t believe it was so much at a biological level, of which
Parts of the book I enjoyed and parts of the book I didn’t enjoyed. What I enjoyed about the book was the learning the history of humans and different societies. I enjoyed hearing about all these groups from the Polynesians to the Europeans. I was great reading how their geographical locations had such great impact on their diversity and advancement in history. Also I enjoyed hearing some of the real life experiences such as the authors trip to Australia because I could relate to the hot heat of it. With every book there are a few things I did not enjoy about it. First it was hard for me to follow it. Certain topics I did not understand and it seemed too lengthy to me. I know the author was supporting his thesis but I thought some parts weren’t as important as others. Which leads to that some parts of the book was very dull for me. This made me lose track of where I was, and what was going on. Overall I had mixed feelings on the book, both positive and