# A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

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- Authors: [Julian Barnes](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0908-865-3
- Published: 2010-02-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa , and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin... This is no ordinary history, but something stranger, a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.