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The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse
Lewis Dartnell
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Description for The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse
Paperback. What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch? Once you've scavenged what you can, how do you begin producing the essentials? How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines, or get metal out of rocks? This book deals with these questions. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive?
A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world as we know it has ended. You and the other survivors must start again. What knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch?
How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines, or get metal out of rocks? Could you avert another Dark Ages, or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment? Living in the modern world, we have become disconnected from the basic processes and key fundamentals of science that sustain our lives.
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099575832
SKU
V9780099575832
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Lewis Dartnell
LEWIS DARTNELL is a UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester, in the field of astrobiology and the search for signs of life on Mars. He has won several awards for his science writing, and contributes to the Guardian, The Times and New Scientist. He has also written for television and appeared on BBC Horizon, Sky News, ... Read more
Reviews for The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse
As the scouts say – be prepared! Say your prayers that you never need this book
Bear Grylls A glorious compendium of the knowledge we have lost in the living… This is the most inspiring book I’ve read in a long time
Peter Forbes
Independent
An extraordinary achievement... It is a great read even if civilisation ... Read more
Bear Grylls A glorious compendium of the knowledge we have lost in the living… This is the most inspiring book I’ve read in a long time
Peter Forbes
Independent
An extraordinary achievement... It is a great read even if civilisation ... Read more