How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
by North, RyanDescription
"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If? The only book you need if you're going back in time What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat? With this book as your guide, you'll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted--from first principles. This illustrated manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Deeply researched, irreverent, and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . . better.
| Author(s): | North, Ryan |
|---|---|
| Format: | Paperback |
| ISBN-10: | 0735220158 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Publication Date: | 2019-09-17 |
| Publisher: | Riverhead Books |
| Weight: | 0.88 Pounds |
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