This is the story of the spread of human civilisation across the face of the earth - told from the evidence of relationships between languages. It is a story which has never been told before, a story which challenges accepted wisdom and throws a totally new light on prehistory. If you want to know the truth about issues such as the peopling of America, the root of Chinese civilisation or the origin of Basque, even the true ancestry of English, then this book is a 'must'.