TITLE: A simple and good reference on surgery theory
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: Can anyone help me to find a simple and good reference (a book, lecture notes or a website) for learning the surgery theory and its applications? I seek a reference together with many examples and figures for more intuition.
Thanks.

REPLY [4 votes]: Scorpan's "the wild world of 4-manifold" is, as its title indicate, restricted to dimension 4 but it has far more picture than one would think possible, including about some surgery constructions. The book is nicely written, and combine an overview of the subject with non-mandatory, small font technical details.