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

Description: How to Invent Everything : A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, Paperback by North, Ryan, ISBN 0735220158, ISBN-13 9780735220157, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. Its 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 youre 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 humanitys original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?

With this book as your guide, youll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earths 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. Youre about to make history. . . better.