Glance over a few pages of "THE STORY OF MANKIND" and you will discover that the book is not a compilation built up with the aid of scissors and paste.
No, it is much more than this; it is a real book, every page of which voices the original individuality of its Author.
Hendrik van Loon wrote and drew "THE STORY OF MANKIND" for his boys, that they might not look upon history as a series of dates, places, events and persons to be Icarnt by heart as a task, but as a fascinating story of the building up of the foundation of our civilization. It is a work in which ripe scholarship and sane judgment is reinforced by a searching humour which enlivens most of the pages.
"THE STORY OF MANKIND" 's like a novel——but every word is true.
Read.it and you will wonder how it ig that you have not been attracted by history before.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.