Will Durant: The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage

The journey begins...my humble desire to banish ignorance and pursue "...the contributions that genius and labor have made to the cultural heritage of mankind. -to chronicle and contemplate, in their causes, character and effects, the advances of invention, the varieties of economic organization, the experiments in government, the asprations of religion, the mutattions of morals and manners, the masterpieces of literature, the development of science, the wisdom of philosophy, and the achievements of art..." Will Durant.

Volume 1 should take me some fifty hours concentration so here goes...