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Hitesh Sharma Mumbai
Last Updated : Jun 14 2013 | 5:18 PM IST
In this book, Zeldin attempts to present history through regular people and day to day occurrences in life. The book, however, is not about history in its traditional form of neatly, chronologically separated civilisations and kings.
 
Rather, this book traces the history of human triumph and suffering, fear, anxiety and courage and friendship between men and women.
 
In the last 20,000 years of human existence, we have struggled through love, hate, fear, anxiety, curiosity and freedom.
 
Thus, Zeldin shows "six ways of travelling through life, six forms of transport" "" to obey, to negotiate, to cultivate one's life, to search for knowledge, to talk and present one's opinions and to be creative, that is, to become an inquirer.
 
I first read this book in February 1997 and I still keep coming back to it. And every time it is a pure delight.
 
Hitesh Sharma Senior vice-president and station director, Radio Mirchi, Mumbai
 
AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF HUMANITY
 
Author: Theodore Zeldin
Publisher: Minerva
ISBN: 0749396237
 
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