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The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch (2014)

by Lewis Dartnell(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

159420523X (ISBN13: 9781594205231)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

review 1: Now I know why there are so many lime kilns dotted around the UK. The book tells you what you need to know to "reboot" civilisation after an apocalyptic event that kills of most people but leaves most of the physical infrastructure intact - at least until it falls apart or breaks because the knowledge of how to maintain or replace it has been lost. The book doesn't go into the question of whether restarting civilisation-as-we-know-it is a good thing and worth restarting.
review 2: You find yourself and a band of others the survivors of a Charleton Heston like apocalypse. You are the last people on earth. How do you rebuild. If infrastructure hasn't been demolished you have a grace period where you can scavenge of the corpse of the old world but pretty soon you ... moreand the other survivors will have to restart civilization. None of us in the modern world can single handedly produce a pencil not to mention an iPhone. This book presents the hardy survivor of a holocaust a way to build your own civilization from the ruins. Be warned it won't be nearly as fun as a video game. The first part gives tips on how scavenge from the old world as it crumbles away and progresses on to tell you how to restart agriculture, relearn metallurgy, learn how to make simple machines and equipment, begin to provide medicine, start producing power. In other words it holds the important shortcuts learned from millennia of wrong turns and dead ends to go from being pretty much a hunter and gatherer to a industrial civilization. It is a nice emergency book to have in case of the apocalypse but frankly makes for some grim reading. less

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