Further Reading

 

General histories

A World History by William McNeill (Oxford University Press, 1967)

A New Green History of the World by Clive Ponting (Penguin, 2007)

Civilizations by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Macmillan, 2000)

The Universe Story by Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme (HarperCollins, 1994)

The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

Maps of Time by David Christian (University of California Press, 2004)

Collapse by Jared Diamond (Viking Penguin, 2005)

A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich (Yale University Press, 2005)

Other helpful books

Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould (Hutchinson Radius, 1990)

The Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge (Penguin, 2006)

Life by Richard Fortey (Vintage, 1999)

Oxygen by Nick Lane (Oxford University Press, 2002)

In the Beginning by John Gribbin (Viking Penguin, 1993)

The Civilisation of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas (Harper San Francisco, 1991)

Gunpowder by Jack Kelly (Atlantic Books, 2004)

Deforesting the Earth by Michael Williams (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Science and Civilization in China by Joseph Needham (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Plows, Plagues and Petroleum by William Ruddiman (Princeton University Press, 2005)

Climate History and the Modern World by H.H. Lamb (Methuen, 1982)

The Ages of Gaia by James Lovelock (Oxford University Press, 1988)

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (Harvard University Press, 1964 – facsimile of original edition of 1859)

The First Eden by David Attenborough (William Collins, 1987)

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, 1997)