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Title: The Handshake: A Gripping History

Author: Ella Al-Shamahi

Narrator: Ella Al-Shamahi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Release date: March 3, 2022

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

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