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How to Live Dangerously
The Hazards of Helmets, the Benefits of Bacteria, and the Risks of Living Too Safe
- Author: Warwick Cairns
- Category: Non-fiction How-to Humour Lifestyle
- Publisher: Macmillan (UK)
- Pub date: 20 June 2008
- Length: 188 pages
About How to Live Dangerously
A brilliant and wickedly funny book
- Peter Schweizer, author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do)
We live in a world governed by fear, where packets of peanuts ‘may contain nuts’ and children must be ever on the alert to ‘stranger danger’. And yet life expectancy has never been higher. Crime rates have plunged. Even unintentional injuries are down. So if we’re safe, why are we so afraid?
HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY is a hilarious, straight-talking look at life’s real risks, not to mention the often ridiculous methods we’ve contrived to keep ourselves ‘safe’. It encourages you to embrace a new kind of freedom, in which we all worry a little less - and live a whole lot more.
About the Author
Warwick Cairns was born in Dagenham in 1962. He studied English at Yale under Harold Bloom, has travelled in the deserts of Northern Kenya with Wilfred Thesiger and has worked drilling wells on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota. He now lives in Windsor with his wife and two daughters.