The Book Depository A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
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Description: A History of the World in 100 Objects : CD-Audio : BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House : 9781408469880 : 140846988X : 07 Sep 2012 : In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of two million years of human history using one hundred objects selected from the Museum's vast and renowned collection. The Book Depository A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781408469880
MPN: 140846988X
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Author: Tricia
Rating: 5
Review: I had listened to the programme on Radio 4 and then my friend was given this book and started to read it. She suggested we went to the British Museum to see our favourite pieces (incidentally I think the BM could do a much better job of sign posting these pieces - for example on their website they said the Benin bronzes were not on display but almost by accident we saw them in the basement on display) The text in the book is almost but not quite identical to the radio scripts it’s interesting to see what was altered. In the end having the book on Kindle on my phone was the most useful for the BM trip. The BM’s own app is also very good but didn’t seem to cover all 100 pieces.
Author: MR CAMERON REITH
Rating: 2
Review: This is a very interesting and informative book. I own a hardback copy which has a full page colour photograph of each object at the beginning of each chapter. This is essential to fully appreciate the accompanying text. Unfortunately, the paperback copy I bought from Amazon as a gift for some-one only has small black and white thumbnails with poor visible detail at the start of the chapters. There are a couple of sections with a total of 28 colour photographs in the book but these are poorly printed,badly cropped, and mostly a third page or half page in size. 5 stars for the hardback version, 2 stars for the paperback.
