The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch is a nonfiction reference work written by astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell. It was published in hardback by The Bodley Head in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2014 and by The Penguin Press in the United States on 17 April 2014. The UK paperback was released by Vintage on 5 March 2015 while the US paperback, retitled The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, was published on 10 March 2015 by Penguin Books. The book is written as a quick-start guide to restarting civilization following a global catastrophe.