Tristan Donovan: 3 books
It's All a Game
The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
"[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history." —The Wall Street Journal
Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate...
Feral Cities
Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wildlife that we share our streets and homes with. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating snails...
Fizz
How Soda Shook Up the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This social, cultural, and culinary history charts soda's remarkable, world-changing journey from awe-inspiring natural mystery to ubiquity. Off-the-wall and offbeat stories abound, including how quack medicine peddlers spawned some of the world's biggest brands, how fizzy pop cashed in on Prohibition,...