National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind From Prehistory to Modern Times

Wonderful easy reading of the history of the world. Some questions or answered and others are still questionable. May need to read it twice.

I've never recommended a book to everyone, every family, but I do for this marvelous, exciting book. This large and hefty tome devotes its space to a sweeping history of the world, in language basic enough for kids in elementary school to understand, but interesting enough to hold the attention of all ages. Its many vivid graphics ( the pages are about 70% illustrations) helped me to to get a "you are there" feeling, as if I was living in ancient Greece or dozens of other places and eras. It provides diversion as well as education--of course, not covering any country or civilization with any depth. It's a historical smorgasbord, which creates a yearning for a second bite of a myriad of specific topics. The price is very reasonable., and it's great fun to browze through. The book's condition was excellent. It was not damaged in shipment, as some reviewers had cautioned about.

Love this! I wanted to learn more about history but wanted something that was more engaging. This book did exactly that! Some reviews claimed that their book came damaged or that the binding wasn't great, but mine came perfectly!

What can I say? National Geographic is quality. The pictures fantastic and the written information interesting. I hope they do a newer version. I gave this as a gift and my FIL was reading/looking at it immediately.

Beautiful book!

Very nice

Pictures and artist's renderings bring alive the topic.Narration is generally authoritative but reflects the author's point of view and invites independent scholarship.

The book is great but, we didn't notice that the binding was broken once we opened the book