Michael Crichton - Timeline - Unabridged Audiobook
When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat. ...
Timeline
Timeline is a science fiction novel by Michael Crichton that was published in November 1999. It tells the story of historians who travel to the Middle Ages thanks to the work of a brilliant yet unprincipled entrepreneur who plans to use the technology to enhance historical tourist attractions. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining technical details and action in his books, addressing quantum physics and time travel.
The Timeline Book of Science
Year by year, era by era, a record of how science has altered human life, from prehistory to the present.
Who discovered the Gulf Stream? Where was cloth first woven? Who constructed the first computer? What caused the extinction of the woolly mammoth in America? "The Timeline Book of Science" answers these and thousands of other essential questions, pinpointing the time of each breakthrough, describing its significance, and relating it to other inventions and events through the ages.
Fun and informative, this book makes the history of science totally accessible to all readers.
