fascinating
If you are about to pick up a work of fiction, try a book like this instead. Huge insights into recent millenia of human migration, change, and culture. You will learn a lot. Spencer Wells writes well--although he drops names too much (Jared Diamond is really rather shallow, he is not an expert). Also, the color section of pictures of ethnic types does not identify them--for that, you have to go to the back where the pictures are repeated in B/W. No reason for the duplication, just bad book design.