Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
A Adventure, Nature, History book. Bill Streever is a weird guy. But I like the way he writes...
An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand heat?A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide and you'll firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and fire, learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and explore thermonuclear weapons and the hottest moment of all time-the big bang.Written in Streever's signature spare and refreshing prose, HEAT is an adventurous personal narrative that...
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- Pages: 368 pages
- ISBN: 9780316105330 / 0
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Bill Streever is a weird guy. But I like the way he writes about science and history. Kind of like if Bill Bryson were crazy. I read this because I liked Cold, which was a better book than this one.The first parts about the desert and fires were good. The history of oil drilling in the northeastern US was somewhat interesting. But, too much time was spent on it. It felt like it became the focal point of the book, when I'd be more interested in reading more... Excellent book, good writer. Informative and funny. Likely need to be a bit nerdy to enjoy.
