a constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen.

Binding: Paperback;496 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: History; Weight: 476 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 28

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