Description
A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more funor more intoxicating.
Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major victory for womens rights to the beer that helped createand destroySouth Americas first empire. And Evans goes deeper than simply writing about ancient debauchery; he recreates some of historys most enjoyable (and most painful) vices and includes guides so you can follow along at home.
Youll learn how to:
Trip like a Greek philosopher.
Rave like your Stone Age ancestors.
Get drunk like a Sumerian.
Smoke a nose pipe like a pre-Columbian Native American.
Mixing science, humor, and grossly irresponsible self-experimentation, Evans paints a vivid picture of how bad habits built the world we know and Wong, author of John Dies at the End
Author: Robert Evans
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780147517609
Language: English
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