This was probably my favorite book of the year. Gombrich wrote it in six weeks at age 26, aiming to explain world history to children. The result is remarkably readable.
E.H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World reads like a magical adventure that inspires true wonder as the reader journeys through our shared story on this planet.
It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month
from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it
drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about
6 years.
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A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did
not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.