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Title: Guns, Germs, and Steel is a political treatise, not science.
Review: Jared Diamond's book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is based on a premise which is undoubtedly correct, that geography has affected history. Unfortunately for readers who expected a sholarly treatment of the subject, the book only serves to detail the author's prejudices. Perhaps the book was written with college freshmen in mind as the audience; it is doubtful anyone else would be impressed with the author's very selective use of facts, his unproven assertions, or his hysterical invective against Europeans, however politically correct that literary style is at present. The author cannot even mention European explorers without placing quotation marks around the word "explorers". In the absence of any evidence of objectivity, it is difficult to take seriously any of his assertions. Repetitious in the extreme, the book is by no means worth the time.
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