I personally never really learnt history when I was at school so I was very intrigued by this book by Gombrich. It was a very interesting book with forty chapters of every bit of history, knowledge and facts that Gombrich had compiled together.
The illustrations were carefully drawn together by Clifford Harper and it really added great effect to the chapters as they were mainly of maps. This gave a good indication of how close the lands, seas and rulers were.
I felt like I was learning something new with every chapter within this book, as Gombrich put an exciting and positive spin towards it. My favourite part about this book was learning and discovering who and why we invented the days of the week and the alphabet.
I would definitely recommend this book as it gives a great insight to the worlds history starting from the very beginning, with Gombrich's very own opinions throughout the book.
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