How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, Live Through the Black Death, and Survive the Rest

 
　　好想看看活生生的恐龍，人生目標就是搭一次鐵達尼號？所有追求刺激的時空旅人有福了！這部結合歷史與科學，腦洞大開又超級實用的精彩作品，將是你旅程中的必備救命讀物。
 
　　《然後你就死了：被隕石擊中、被鯨魚吃掉、被磁鐵吸住等45種離奇死法的科學詳解》共同作者柯迪・卡西迪，在這本教你跑贏暴龍、躲過龐貝火山爆發、成功逃出鐵達尼號、活過黑死病疫情的萬用寶典中，以幽默風趣的方式，提供躲避歷史上各種災難的實用建議，讓你無論前往任何時間點旅遊，都能快樂出門，平安回家。(文/博客來編譯)

　　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.

Cody Cassidy is the author of Who Ate the First Oyster? and co-author of And Then You’re Dead. His writing has appeared in Wired and Slate, along many other publications. He lives in San Francisco