I've gotten to the point where I just suggest people skip Guns, Germs, and Steel entirely. Diamond is a really excellent writer, but he cherry picks his material to support a thesis and ignores all the prior art that shows that people already tried his thesis a century ago and discarded it.
Jump to 'The Power Broker' instead. Now that's an interesting read.
Jump to 'The Power Broker' instead. Now that's an interesting read.