Magpie6493's Reviews > The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

I really found this fascinating and ended up really enjoying myself.

This book is more of a brief summary of a lot of different points of interest in human history, ultimately feeding into one greater... or general concept of interest rather than anything exact. That may not end up being for everyone.

That being said this book takes on a lot and I find it somewhat funny some people have looked at this book which from start to finish covers 50 000 years of human history in about 400 ish pages.... And then complains that it's not exact or detailed enough.... I just don't quite get why you'd look at a book like this and expect that but hey we each have our own ideas and preferences when we go to read a book and that's entirely fine to me. What's strange to me may or may not be for someone else.

If youre interested in history as a whole this is probably an absolutely great book for you. Even if a lot of the parts are breif the author mentions a lot of people and things that also typically escape the very eurocentric imperialism and colonization was great narrative taht far too many historians still seem to cling to. So of you're wanting to broaden your horizons a bit more when it comes to history spmethjng in this will ljkley bee of great interest to you as a jumping off point.

Would totally recommend this. Got this book as a gift from a very thoughtful person in my life and had a great time.