| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780385420938 | | Publisher: Doubleday Books | | Publish Date: 10/1/1994 | | Buy.com Sku: 30055196 | | Item#: RQM2SY | | Dimensions (in Inches) 10.75H x 8.75L x 1T |
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| | | Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that "Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info.
B & W illustrations.
| PraiseBook Jacket
"A wonderfully goofball vision. Serious madness for the whole human family." - Richard GereBook Jacket
"Like its predecessor, 'The Cartoon History of the Universe II' is a delight. Charming, irreverent, with a true global perspective, it's a better way to learn human history than 90 percent of the school textbooks." - Carl Sagan Book Jacket
"Superb artistry and stand-up wit! 'The Cartoon History of the Universe II' is a gift to those of us who love to laugh and who love to learn." - Lynn Johnston |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Writing |  5 | | Content | 5 | | Readability | 5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 All History Should Be Written This Way Monday, May 17, 1999
Petronius Arbiter II from Albuquerque, NM
Fans of the first collected volume of Gonick's grand opus may have expected it would be impossible for Volume II to live up to the high standards set in the former volume. If so, they would be-- how might Larry put it?-- gladly disappointed.
Aside from his pungent wit and frequent touches of the sublime, Gonick is also renowned for the breadth of viewpoint his cartoonery embraces. History, properly viewed, is much more than a series of battles and conquests, and its cast of interesting and significant characters (women, minorities, etc.) includes more than kings and generals, but you wouldn't know that from reading many history texts.
In this volume, Gonick deftly addresses these and other imbalances, including one of the most glaring of all: for many centuries, the richest, most powerful, most advanced region of the world was not Greece, Italy, England, or anywhere west of the Urals. It was China. Although some readers may think Gonick dwells a bit too much on China here, my reading of the situation says otherwise. Among other things, he does a good job of implying how extensively events in the East interacted with, and sometimes paralleled, those in the West.
Not that this is the main point of his work, of course. My first reading of this book had me doing a lot more laughing out loud than pondering the grandeur of it all. If you're like most people, you'll be doing quite a bit of both.
Egad, Larry, you've done it again! Was this review helpful?  
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