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Title: A perfect overview of world history
Review: This is an excellent comprehensive coverage of recorded human history. My views of The New Penguin History of the World are:(+)Covering all the major events and civilizations with the breadth that their significance deserves. Note that it is all done at an introductory level for obvious space limitations.(+)Very thorough and comprehensive(-)Mainly focuses on western history with less attention to the rest of the world so the title may be slightly deceiving.(-)A more minor issue but still of detrimental value: the publisher must have wanted to maintain this work as a single tome so cramming 1264 pages necessitated the use of a small font. The small font is less comfortable to read but as mentioned above this is a minor issue.
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