A review by sparklelys
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller by Ryan North

5.0

Your time machine has crashed. It is irreparable. Fortunately you have this handy-dandy survival guide for the stranded time-traveller! And if you can introduce such civilization-builders as language, or better yet, the written word, you would be like a god. Name everything after yourself! Have a list of all the most influential animals! (Chickens and horses: good. Mosquitoes and fleas: bad. But very influential.)