"The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd."

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As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world from a fresh perspective and enables readers to see it in a new light. That he has managed to do so in a single conceptual work is nothing short of astounding.

— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto