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Sto caricando le informazioni... How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes (originale 2023; edizione 2023)di Cody Cassidy (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaHow to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes di Cody Cassidy (2023)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A fun look into a handful of disastrous moments in history from the viewpoint of how you could have possibly survived them. In each chapter Cassidy takes on a particular event (the Chicxulub asteroid, the fall of Rome, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake,…), and using advice from experts in that specific field, he lays out a plan for survival, should you find yourself somehow back in time and in the wrong place. An easy and interesting read; I learned a lot more than I thought I would! ( ) With a title like that, how could i refuse this book!? each chapter has been well researched (backed by archaeologists, map makers, scientists, survivalists, and other field experts) and reads like documentary episodes from the history channel (back when they were still doing history). i enjoyed the chapters on the already mentioned Pompeii, Titanic, and T. Rex...but i was surprised at how much i liked the chapters on Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe and Blackbeard and his pirates. although, most of the survival recommendations could be summed up as: run as early as possible, as fast as possible ^_^ Compellingly written and brimming with facts, this is a quick and jolly run through some of history's worst places to be. Like Randall Munroe's What If? books, it's less about the answers to the questions posed and more about the fascinating things you learn along the way. It is popular history and I'm sure there'll be a few "um"s "er"s and "actually"s from people who actually know a thing or two about any of the events discussed, but this isn't written for them. There's the vague air of a Horrible Histories for adults, and that's a rather lovely thing to have. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"History is the most dangerous place on earth. From dinosaurs the size of locomotives to meteors big enough to sterilize the planet, from famines to pandemics, from tornadoes to the Chicxulub asteroid, the odds of human survival are slim but not zero-at least, not if you know where to go and what to do. In each chapter of How to Survive History, Cody Cassidy explores how to survive one of history's greatest threats: getting eaten by dinosaurs, being destroyed by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, succumbing to the lava flows of Pompeii, being devoured by the Donner Party, drowning during the sinking of the Titanic, falling prey to the Black Death, and more. Using hindsight and modern science to estimate everything from how fast you'd need to run to outpace a T. rex to the advantages of different body types in surviving the Donner Party tragedy, Cassidy gives you a detailed battle plan for survival, helping you learn about the era at the same time. History may be the most dangerous place on earth, but that doesn't mean you can't visit. You can, and you should. And with a copy of How to Survive History in your back pocket, you just might make it out alive"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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