A detailed guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from
outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive
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.
