How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

<b><b>An NPR Best Book of 2018</b><br /><b></b><br /><b>"</b><b><i>How to Invent Everything</i></b><b> is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and </b><b><i>New York Times</i></b><b>-bestselling author of </b><b><i>What If? </i></b><br /><br /><b>The only book you need if you're going back in time</b></b><br /><br />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? <br /><br />With this book as your guide, you'll survive--<i>and thrive</i>--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, <i>How to Invent Everything </i>will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . . <i>better.</i>