Description:Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live forever? You could read every book ever written, watch every movie ever made, visit every city in
the world…A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality draws on evidence from 2700 BCE to present day to explore the ways people have attempted to cheat death. Read about Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese emperor who sent people to search high and low for a fruit he thought would make him immortal. Find out what vampire therapy is and what it has in common with eating your vegetables. Discover what we can learn about longevity from naked mole rats…From science to art to magic, there don’t seem to be any ways we haven’t tried to achieve immortality.In fact, some people have devoted their entire lives to the idea of living forever. So far there have been no confirmed cases of immortality…But that doesn’t mean we’ll stop looking
for a way there!