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The Handshake
- Author
- Ella Al-Shamahi
- Narrator
- Ella Al-Shamahi
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 3 March 2022
- Run Time
- 4 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- History
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So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery - from the handshake's origins (at least seven million years ago) all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020. Drawing on new research, anthropological insights and first-hand experience, she'll reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations - and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact.
Because the story of the handshake ... is far from over.
“It's a little book of wonder, it's fantastic” CHRIS EVANS
“A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little study ... joyously unboring” SUNDAY TIMES
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- Author
- Ella Al-Shamahi
- Narrator
- Ella Al-Shamahi
- Duration
- 4 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 March 2022
- ISBN
- 9781004062843
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- History
Synopsis
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery - from the handshake's origins (at least seven million years ago) all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020. Drawing on new research, anthropological insights and first-hand experience, she'll reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations - and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact.Because the story of the handshake ... is far from over.“It's a little book of wonder, it's fantastic” CHRIS EVANS“A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little study ... joyously unboring” SUNDAY TIMES
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