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John Reader


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An author and photojournalist with more than forty years' professional experience. He holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at U.C.L. ...more

Average rating: 4.08 · 2,747 ratings · 289 reviews · 28 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Africa: A Biography of the ...

4.18 avg rating — 1,874 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions
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Potato: A History of the Pr...

3.82 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions
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Cities

3.67 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions
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Missing Links: In Search of...

4.37 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1982 — 20 editions
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Man on Earth: A Celebration...

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Africa

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The Rise of Life: The First...

4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions
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Kilimanjaro

3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions
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Missing Links - The hunt fo...

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Mount Kenya

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“It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.”
John Reader, Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins
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“other spoils of the Spanish Conquest at the end of the sixteenth century and thereafter spread fitfully, only becoming fully established as a staple food of Europe's rural and working families during the nineteenth century.”
John Reader, Potato

“Certainly the anonymous author of a long article in The Quarterly Review was lifted to heights of eloquence by the scale and complexities of simply feeding the city:”
John Reader, Cities

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