Booknotes+ : Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The World"
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a British historian. He's 57 and lives in London with his wife Santa and their two children. He's written 12 books - 9 nonfiction and 3 novels. His latest effort is titled "The World: A Family History of Humanity." Including the index, it's 1,304 pages. In his preface, Montefiore writes: "I have always wanted to write an intimate human history like 'The World' \u2013 in some ways a new approach, in some ways a traditional one \u2013 which is the fruit of a lifetime of study and travels."\xa0\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices