HEAT: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places.
by Streever, Bill
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock, pages)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316105333
- ISBN 13
- 9780316105330
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York & Boston:: Little Brown,, (2013). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock, pages). First printing. An entertaining book in which the author, a biologist, describes hiking in Death Valley to the invention of matches, and the chemistry of cooking, as he mixes "pop science, personal experiences, and historic asides into a fun and informative commentary on a subject that few people think about despite its inherent life and death implications." (Publishers Weekly) Extensive notes, index.xvii, 349 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89093
- Title
- HEAT: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places.
- Author
- Streever, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock, pages)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316105333
- ISBN 13
- 9780316105330
- Publisher
- Little Brown,
- Place of Publication
- New York & Boston:
- Date Published
- (2013)
- Keywords
- death valley, thermonuclear weapons, biology, inventions,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
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