The second volume of an epic beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind based on
Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to
live in one place they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better
life in return? In The Pillars of Civilisation Yuval Noah Harari and his companions including
Prof. Saraswati and Dr. Fiction travel the length and breadth of human history to investigate
how the Agricultural Revolution changed society forever. Discover how wheat took over the world
how war famine disease and inequality became a part of the human condition and why we might
only have ourselves to blame. The origins of modern farming are told through Elizabethan
tragedy the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of
the Daily Business News and the history of inequality is revealed in a superhero detective
story. A radical witty and colourful retelling of the story of humankind adapted from Yuval
Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Volume 2 can be read as a standalone or as
a follow-up to Volume 1 The Birth of Humankind.
