
Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book exploring how geography and environment shaped the modern world, explaining why some civilizations survived and conquered others.
since I'm now 89, I'm very conscious of time left and what I want to do in the time left.
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"Jared Diamond is the speaker in this transcript (identifiable by his mentions of New Guinea mountain ranges, ornithology, and his age). Per the core rules, if an author is explicitly named (or clearly the primary speaker), we include their most well-known book."