Begin­ning with pre­his­tory, this book enters into recorded mem­ory of the Homo Sapien expe­ri­ence and fol­lows through to the present day in a com­pi­la­tion of facts, fea­tures and images.

• time­line stream show­ing the con­tin­u­ous flow of events
• indi­vid­ual fea­tures on con­ti­nents, regions and countries
• hun­dreds of pic­tures, maps, graphs and illustrations