The Story of Mankind (Illustrated Upgrade Edition)

Author: Hendrik van Loon
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: 367 world-famous paintings, 60 world-class photographs, and 138 types of treasured artworks from major museums around the world. This book, based on Van Loon's classic original, incorporates a large number of carefully selected illustrations to recreate pivotal moments in history or typical social and life scenes of different eras. With profound humanistic concern and witty, insightful prose, it presents the grand tapestry of human history. It features a rhythmic "big history" narrative while not missing any events or details that truly influenced the course of human civilization. Whether you know little about history or have read extensive works, you can find inspiration and reading pleasure in this classic, accessible human history. More importantly, this book, based on Van Loon's classic original, incorporates a large number of carefully selected illustrations to recreate pivotal moments in history or typical social scenes of different eras, and it upgrades the cultural background and temporal limitations of the original with new discoveries and perspectives from the 21st century.