History's greatest tour guide, Ian Mortimer, takes us on an eye-opening
and expansive journey through the last millennium of human innovation.
In Millennium, best-selling historian Ian Mortimer takes the listener
on a whirlwind tour of the last 10 centuries of Western history. It is a
journey into a past vividly brought to life and bursting with ideas,
that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which
century saw the greatest change.
We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village
being burned to the ground by invaders - and dried human dung was a
recommended cure for cancer - to a world in which explorers sailed into
the unknown and civilizations came into conflict with each other on an
epic scale. Here is a story of godly scientists, fearless adventurers,
coldhearted entrepreneurs, and strong-minded women - a story of
discovery, invention, revolution, and cataclysmic shifts in perspective.
Millennium is a journey into the past like no other. Our understanding
of human development will never be the same again, and the lessons we
learn along the way are profound ones for us all.
