Book description
Refreshes the parts other history books can't reach...
A bit ropy on the Renaissance?
In the dark about the Enlightenment?
Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of
the world and want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not boring
romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth - from
15 billion years BC to the present day?
Good.
A Less Boring History of the World tells you everything you
need to know from the Big Bang to Barack Obama, taking in the
Byzantines, the Black Death, the Boston Tea Party, Bonaparte, and Bin
Laden along the way. Each historical episode is boiled down to edible,
bite size chunks so that you can finally piece together all the
different bits of history - and see how on earth we ended up in the
mess we are today. Whipping through the chaotic journey of man, past
ancient civilisations, the rise of empires, and the fall of bankers,
A Less Boring History refreshes your memory and broadens your
mind. And, if that's not enough, it will also make you laugh. A lot.
Dave Rear is a writer and academic who lives and works in Tokyo. He
read history at Cambridge and, out of sheer lack of imagination, almost
became a school teacher, until he came to his senses and emigrated. He
now lectures in English language, history, social science and anything
else his students let him get away with. He is married with a young son,
who occasionally gives him five minutes or so to write.
