The story is told exclusively through the things that humans have made - all sorts of things, carefully designed and then either admired and preserved or used, broken and thrown away. The book's range is enormous.
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England
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A HISTORY OF THE ANABAPTISTS IN SWITZERLAND