What do you think?
Rate this book
UnHistory: An Incomplete List of Things That Never Happened
How do you tie Abraham Lincoln to Angry Birds? How does one connect Jackson Pollock to The Rolling Stones? Is it possible to draw a line from Geronimo to bungee jumping?
You'd think these are disconnected people and things, and they are. But some are connected simply because we choose to connect them. Or maybe they're connected because showing how they are disconnected we can understand them better.
Take cardboard boxes, something we all take for granted today. But Genghis Khan could certainly have used them with his trekking all over the Asian continent. In this book you learn about Genghis Khan and cardboard boxes, and how they might have worked. Or not.
In any event, this book helps illuminate history - both people and things - and shows how famous people missed out on famous (and not-so famous) inventions and everyday things.
You'd think these are disconnected people and things, and they are. But some are connected simply because we choose to connect them. Or maybe they're connected because showing how they are disconnected we can understand them better.
Take cardboard boxes, something we all take for granted today. But Genghis Khan could certainly have used them with his trekking all over the Asian continent. In this book you learn about Genghis Khan and cardboard boxes, and how they might have worked. Or not.
In any event, this book helps illuminate history - both people and things - and shows how famous people missed out on famous (and not-so famous) inventions and everyday things.
149 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 21, 2015
1 person want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.