Out of Our Minds

A history of human imagination, from the dawn of civilisation to the present day. Explores how and why we have ideas, and shows that bad ideas are often more influential than good ones.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of the World. Author of many critically acclaimed books, including the award-winning Pathfinders and Food: A History, he occupies the William P. Reynolds Chair in History at the University of Notre Dame.