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History in a hurry

Like the first edition, this one covers a medley of topics

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The presentation of the topics are unexceptionable enough if you overlook the odd syntax that Zac’s generation tends to employ.

Kanika Datta
More World History in 3 Points
Author: Zac Sangeeth
Publisher: Hachette
Pages: 246
Price: Rs 399

In primary school, we were taught history from a fascinating textbook series called Down The Ages, which took us from the dawn of man to the early great civilisations. This engagingly written and superbly illustrated set of books gave way in big school to spectacularly anodyne tomes that appeared to specialise in discouraging even the most zealous student of history.

It is possible that Zac Sangeeth, who describes himself as the “world’s youngest ‘historian’ [the quote marks are his] and the youngest commissioned non-fiction series author”, may not have had
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