Shop No.20, Aurobindo Palace Market, Hauz Khas, Near Church 110016 New Delhi IN
Midland The Book Shop ™
Shop No.20, Aurobindo Palace Market, Hauz Khas, Near Church New Delhi, IN
+919871604786 https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/6468e33c3c35585403eee048/without-tag-line-480x480.png" [email protected]
9781399609449 637b67b2bba95d8c7dd65fc4 The World - Part 1 & 2 Box Set https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/637b67b3bba95d8c7dd661cf/41megugnoul-_sy331_bo1-204-203-200_.jpg

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family

We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey through the families that have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads.


A rich cast of complex characters form the beating heart of the story. Some are well-known leaders, from Alexander the Great, Attila, Ivan the Terrible and Genghis Khan to Hitler, Thatcher, Obama, Putin and Zelensky. Some are creative, from Socrates, Michelangelo and Shakespeare to Newton, Mozart, Balzac, Freud, Bowie and Tim Berners-Lee.


Others are lesser-known: Hongwu, who began life as a beggar and founded the Ming dynasty; Kamehameha, conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, Arab empress who defied Rome; King Henry of Haiti; Lady Murasaki, first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, Moroccan pirate-queen. Here are not just conquerors and queens but prophets, charlatans, actors, gangsters, artists, scientists, doctors, tycoons, lovers, wives, husbands and children.


This is world history on the most grand and intimate scale - spanning centuries, continents and cultures, and linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, medicine and technology to the people at the centre of the human drama.


As spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the story of humankind in all its joy, sorrow, romance, ingenuity and cruelty in a ground-breaking, single narrative that will forever shift the boundaries of what history can achieve.

 

 

Review

‘In this work of astonishing scope and erudition, Montefiore interweaves the stories of the servants, courtiers and kings, pioneers, preachers and philosophers who have made history. A brilliant synthesis that will impart fresh insight to even the most learned readers’ - Henry Kissinger


'A staggering achievement. Montefiore has given us a tremendous gift: a pulsingly readable world history through the millennia and from one end of the globe to the other' - Simon Schama


'A tour de force - hugely ambitious, erudite and filled with surprises - that puts the family and families back into the heart of history' - Peter Frankopan


'Compelling, moving, epic and diverse . . . All the drama of humankind is here from cavemen to Putin and Zelensky' - Olivette Otele


'One word for Montefiore's book: magisterial' - Ben Okri

About the Author

Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of prize-winning books that have been published in forty-eight languages. Catherine The Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeStalin: The Court of The Red Tsar won History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book AwardsYoung Stalin won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography, the Kreisky Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie PolitiqueJerusalem: The Biography won the JBC Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize in ChinaThe Romanovs: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. He is also the author of Written in History: Letters That Changed the World and Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World.

9781399609449
out of stock INR 1519
1 1

The World - Part 1 & 2 Box Set

ISBN: 9781399609449
₹1,519
₹1,899   (20% OFF)

Back In Stock Shortly

Details
  • ISBN: 9781399609449
  • Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Publisher: Orion
  • Pages: 1344
  • Format: Paperback
SHARE PRODUCT

Book Description

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family

We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey through the families that have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads.


A rich cast of complex characters form the beating heart of the story. Some are well-known leaders, from Alexander the Great, Attila, Ivan the Terrible and Genghis Khan to Hitler, Thatcher, Obama, Putin and Zelensky. Some are creative, from Socrates, Michelangelo and Shakespeare to Newton, Mozart, Balzac, Freud, Bowie and Tim Berners-Lee.


Others are lesser-known: Hongwu, who began life as a beggar and founded the Ming dynasty; Kamehameha, conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, Arab empress who defied Rome; King Henry of Haiti; Lady Murasaki, first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, Moroccan pirate-queen. Here are not just conquerors and queens but prophets, charlatans, actors, gangsters, artists, scientists, doctors, tycoons, lovers, wives, husbands and children.


This is world history on the most grand and intimate scale - spanning centuries, continents and cultures, and linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, medicine and technology to the people at the centre of the human drama.


As spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the story of humankind in all its joy, sorrow, romance, ingenuity and cruelty in a ground-breaking, single narrative that will forever shift the boundaries of what history can achieve.

 

 

Review

‘In this work of astonishing scope and erudition, Montefiore interweaves the stories of the servants, courtiers and kings, pioneers, preachers and philosophers who have made history. A brilliant synthesis that will impart fresh insight to even the most learned readers’ - Henry Kissinger


'A staggering achievement. Montefiore has given us a tremendous gift: a pulsingly readable world history through the millennia and from one end of the globe to the other' - Simon Schama


'A tour de force - hugely ambitious, erudite and filled with surprises - that puts the family and families back into the heart of history' - Peter Frankopan


'Compelling, moving, epic and diverse . . . All the drama of humankind is here from cavemen to Putin and Zelensky' - Olivette Otele


'One word for Montefiore's book: magisterial' - Ben Okri

About the Author

Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of prize-winning books that have been published in forty-eight languages. Catherine The Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeStalin: The Court of The Red Tsar won History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book AwardsYoung Stalin won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography, the Kreisky Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie PolitiqueJerusalem: The Biography won the JBC Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize in ChinaThe Romanovs: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. He is also the author of Written in History: Letters That Changed the World and Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World.

User reviews

  0/5