A Short History Of Progress by Ronald Wright

A Short History Of Progress by Ronald Wright

Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own succee.

A compelling work of distilled wisdom* * TLS * *
Wright is both trained academic and an acclaimed novelist and he has used these skills to page-turning effect in this work of non-fiction. * * Morning Star * *
The author sifts the findings of archaeology and anthropology with thoughtful grace to build a potent argument. * * Guardian * *

Ronald Wright is a prize-winning novelist, historian and essayist, published in ten languages. His non-fiction includes the number-one bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times. Hi first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen as a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times and the New York Times. His latest book is the novel Henderson's Spear. He was born in England, educated at Cambridge and now lives in British Columbia, Canada.

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ISBN 13	9781841957111
ISBN 10	1841957119
Title	A Short History Of Progress
Author	Ronald Wright
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2005-09-01
Number of pages	224
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