The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott

Five thousand years of human history condensed into 192 pages, which is honestly an impressive level of organizational confidence.

In A History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks, Emma Marriott covers the full sweep from the earliest civilizations around 3500 BC through the founding of the United Nations in 1945. Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire, the Age of Exploration, the World Wars. It is all organized into short, readable sections that manage to feel informative without requiring a semester-long commitment and multiple highlighters.

The cover alone earns its keep. Featuring a late 16th century cartographic map of the English colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, complete with period compass rose, it looks less like a modern paperback and more like something that should already be sitting on a weathered shelf beside a brass telescope and a questionable maritime journal.

Details

• Author: Emma Marriott
• Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
• First published: 2012
• This edition: 2016 paperback
• Pages: 192
• ISBN: 978-1-78243-707-9
• Approximate size: 5 1/8th x 7 7/8ths

Condition: New