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'Guns, Germs' takes grimly fascinating look at geographic destiny
Jared Diamond doesn't mince words in the three-part series based on his book bylineTED MAHAR
Monday, July 11, 2005
TED MAHAR
You can't say Jared Diamond tosses off top-of-the-head answers.
His 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel,' is one of eight he has written since 1977. But it germinated in an instant in July 1972 on a Papua New Guinea beach when a local politician named Yali posed his whack-on-the-side-of-the-head question: 'Why you white man have so much cargo, and we New Guineans have so little?'"
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