How to Live Dangerously: Why we should all stop worrying, and start living - Softcover

Cairns, Warwick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230712215 ISBN 13: 9780230712218

Publisher: Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

We live in a society governed by Fear. Packets of peanuts ‘may contain nuts’, our children are locked away safe indoors, and we are encouraged to fear risks that previous generations took for granted. The result is a temptation never to leave the house. How to Live Dangerously is a sane, straight-talking, wonderfully entertaining manifesto that assesses the real risks of modern-day life*, and encourages us to embrace a new freedom in the way we live. Sometimes, sh1t happens – but you may as well get out there and enjoy yourself while you can because, in the end, you’re a long time dead.

*Don’t like your children much? You’d have to lock them out of the house every day for 186,000 years before they were abducted (and even then you’d get them back within 24 hours)

*Afraid of flying? If you really want to die in a plane crash, you’ll need to take a flight a day for the next 26,000 years . . .

About this title

Book Description:

A brilliantly entertaining polemic about the need to embrace risk, and live your life to the full

About the Author:

Warwick Cairns is the author of About the Size of It -- a serious, but seriously funny book about measuring things. He lives in Windsor with his wife and two daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0230712215
• ISBN 13: 9780230712218
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208