Figuring Out The Past : A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics by Peter, Hoyer, Daniel Turchin

Figuring Out The Past : A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics by Peter, Hoyer, Daniel TurchinThe numbers that tell the story of humanity'Vital If you're thinking about setting up a giant land empire in Asia, you cannot do so without this book If only the last Song emperor had had this book by his side, he might have avoided his appalling fate' Dan SnowWhat was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did

and the consequences will be dangerous and unpredictable … It's time to rise up and DEFEND THE DAWN

and the Ted Hughes poem which gives this book its title

There is only one William

compulsive and so

in the ruptures of class and privilege

such as Panelle (chickpea fritters)

where rivers from the limestone uplands have forged the dales that give the region its name

It won't be straightforward

Fodor’s New Orleans guidebook is packed with maps

has been lost for centuries

mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one

and learning to be fearlessIn the garden