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The Human Odyssey: East, West and the Search for Universal Values is a veritable tour de force. It reveals Green as a part-time scholar who is astonishingly well read and versed in a wide variety of disciplines: history, literature, philosophy, religion and cultural studies.
The book begins with this striking personal statement: ‘I have had the great privilege of living in different parts of the land mass we call Eurasia, and of travelling extensively over three decades throughout many of its countries’ (p.ix).
This has led him not only to research deeply into the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, but to explore ‘Where are we heading?’ He believes that all the greatest challenges of the next century will centre on Eurasia, though he is quick to add that America will also be heavily involved in determining the world’s destiny.
