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An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.
A scientist and bestselling nature writer who will go to any extreme to satisfy his curiosity, 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.
Melting glaciers, warming oceans, forest fires, 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?
Written in Streever's signature crisp and entertaining prose, HEAT is an adventurous personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience-how heat works, its history, and its relationship to daily life.
- Sales Rank: #303861 in Books
- Published on: 2013-12-03
- Released on: 2013-12-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
From Booklist
Science and nature writer Streever, author of the best-selling Cold (2009), this time turns his attention to the opposite temperature phenomenon. He begins with vivid recollections of his experience in Death Valley, a desert too hot for cactus, with measured temperatures of 148 degrees and gruesome consequences for wanderers. Streever goes on to chronicle visits to other hot spots, including Santa Barbara, California, in the wake of a devastating, unmanaged fire, a volcanic slope in Hawaii, coal mines in the Netherlands, a thermonuclear processing plant in South America, and fire-walking schools. Streever intersperses his personal adventures with fascinating science, culture, and history, from the invention of matches to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to discussions of the relative merits of coal, oil, and thermonuclear heat and environmental issues. With engaging storytelling skill and deep scientific knowledge, Streever offers a fascinating exploration of one of the basic necessities of everyday life. A detailed notes section is as fascinating as the text. --Vanessa Bush
Review
2014 Nautilus Award Silver Winner PRAISE FOR HEAT:
"An illuminating romp sure to delight connoisseurs of extreme geography and ignite everyone's inner pyromaniac." -- David R. Montgomery, author of The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
"In this worthy companion to Cold, Streever is able to mix the 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 (starred review)
"This book, equally engaging and filled with fascinating facts, will appeal to old and young, and likely sell like superheatedcakes." -- The Huffington Post
"Streever's book is rangy and free-form.... Evocative scientific explanations also punctuate his exploits.... He clearly has an affinity for extremes and a gutsy, undaunted spirit that enlivens both his inquiries and his writing." -- Smithsonian Magazine
"Engaging, easy-to-read, free-ranging exploration of a natural phenomenon. Funny and factual blend of science, history, and adventure." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Bill Streever has now covered the full spectrum. As he did with his previous book, Cold, Heat reminds us that our survival depends on maintaining ourselves within a very narrow range of temperature, but Streever has gone ahead and surveyed the extremes." -- The Daily Beast
A "thoroughly entertaining companion volume.... Streever operates in some of the same territory as Mary Roach and Bill Bryson: taking on big, serious topics, and making them entertaining without making them trivial, inserting himself into the narrative without overwhelming the material. This is a fine balancing act." -- The San Francisco Chronicle
"Bill Streever is an able guide into the flaming regions of our beleaguered evirons... a rare nature book, a pleasing mix of first-person narrative and layman science. The facts come fast and furious but are served on a platter of digestible prose." -- The Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Streever's easy-going, colourful prose is at its best in his vivid descriptions of historical events." -- The New Scientist
"Confronted in 2009 with the best-selling success of "Cold," biologist Bill Streever was all but obligated to take on "Heat," but he's done it with more verve and creativity, giving readers a virtual page-turner ... He writes cleverly, clearly, at times beautifully ... He's a friendly tour guide, with a wry sense of humor." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Streever has a knack for explaining scientific phenomena to a general readership, confidently surveying both the historical development of scientific research and chemical reactions." -- The New Republic
"He adeptly explains scientific principles and their applications in human terms, and via specific examples. It's almost as if Streever has hit upon a winning formula for popular-science writing that doesn't...dumb down the substantive science.... Streever has a nice touch. He variously makes you think and smile. Sometimes he achieves both at the same time." -- Winnipeg Free Press
"HEAT can't help but ignite interest among those of us emerging from the back end of a monumentally miserable winter." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
About the Author
Bill Streever is the author of the national bestseller, Cold. He chairs the North Slope Science Initiative's Science Technical Advisory Panel in Alaska and serves on many related committees, including a climate change advisory panel. A biologist, he lives with his son in Anchorage, where he hikes, bikes, camps, scuba dives, and cross country skies, as often as the weather allows.
Most helpful customer reviews
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Too hot
By Tasha
This book started out by describing what prolonged exposure to heat does to the human body. The second chapter talks about wild fires. I feel a warning is needed, these two chapters are quite graphic. The squeamish beware. I'm not squeamish and found all this fascinating. I'd also like to add that whatever we pay firefighters is not enough, it couldn't possibly be enough. Streever goes on to talk about cooking, fuel, volcanoes, nuclear weapons, and even supercolliders. This book was fun, informative, and very well written. It has convinced me to read his previous book about cold.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding! Bravo!
By Kindle Customer
If you love non-fiction popular science books, this is an excellent choice. Also, if you have read his book "Cold" you will have to read this one, too.
The author has a writing style which is very ADD (attention-deficit) in that he hops around from whatever he is thinking at THIS moment to whatever he is thinking NEXT, but it really works. He has taken on a HUGE topic, that covers everything from campfires and deserts to the history of fossil fuels and volcanoes and even firewalking. This was especially fascinating because I actually walked on fire back in the 1980's, so I was interested to see his take on the phenomenon.
Go along with him in his travels around the world to explore the entire topic of "The Science of Hot Things and the History of the People Who Make Them."
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
There will be a hot time in the old town tonight
By Owl
If reviews were the stock market, the recommendation for "Heat" would be "Buy and Hold."
Bill Streever (and his stalwart companion) take on extreme heat. Not the spring tra-la-la sunny days heat; not the heat of a 350 degree bake 25 minutes oven; not the sweet heats. He explores, first hand, hands on, and feet on too the dynamics and consequences of heats intense enough to melt rock, to pulverize a city, to leave only a blob of gold where rings had been, to half mummify a lost man alive.
"Heat" the book has ten chapters: Raving Thirst (seven days in an extreme desert without water), Unmanaged Fire (and what it does to people trapped in blazing infernos, to rings, and to other things), Cooked (victuals through time, space, and place), My Children Eat Coal, Rock Oil, Steaming Mountains (volcanic immensity and intensity), Boom (the heart of deadly brightness), and The Top of the Thermometer (inside a super-collider when gold becomes quarks and temperatures rise to seven trillion degrees).
The chapters reflect the sensible effective organization of the book as a whole: from the relatively lowest heat/degrees Fahrenheit (desert) to the most intense (within the super-collider). Within each chapter, we are in similarly well-organized hands, from the earliest instances through the developments to the current status of coal, oil, atomic bombs or whatever. The structure is not obtrusive but it is very much part of what makes the wealth of information so accessible and "Heat" such a good book.
Further, Streever seems incapable of writing a boring or clumsy sentence. Throughout this generous-sized book (271 pages plus an irresistable, witty, well-researched appendix/footnotes of 50 pages), the writing is so elegant, clear, humorous, wry, well-informed, translucent that one wants to stop and read aloud. (And does).
For example,
"Along certain stretches, the lava of the Mauna Loa shield is old and covered with rain forest, thick stands of dripping tree ferns and an abundance of bright flowers. Along these stretches, it is hard to see Mauna Loa as a volcano. The shield slopes lazily upward to the left and downward to the right, toward the sea, looking no more volcanic than Vermont." (p.188).
I live on the Big Island of Hawaii, up close and personal to Mauna Loa (and the active volcano, Kilauea, which is giving us no end of atmospheric grief from vog). Streever has nailed this description, the foliage so Jurassic a Brontosaurus would not surprise, yet but a longish walk or a shortish drive from the sulphur and scarlet so admired by Mark Twain. ("A strong stench," Twain wrote, "but not unpleasing to a sinner.")
Walk we do in the intrepid company of Streever and his wife. We almost get mummified ourselves as they stagger through Death Valley. To experience as much extreme heat as possible directly they sign-up and complete a work-shop in fire-walking. Streever trudges through miles of snowy Alaska to see if he can make fire, trying out matches (sure) but also a new-type percussion kit down throughv to the earlier tehnology found in the Iceman's leather pouch. And he puts his hand through and above a candle flame. Stuff most of us might not try, but in this information and experience-rich book, it seems not sensationlistic but part of telling the story.
Streever's attitude of enormous, almost unquenchable curiousity brings a sense of the Eighth Day of Creation wonder alive. He must be among the most engaging of men, getting the time, attention, and thorough co-operation of people around the world who know something he doesn't (yet) and thinks necessary to this story of heat.
A book for those fascinated by what we ourselves do not know in the natural world, in the extreme technological edges, that yet is more-than-relevant to the larger questions though this is not about policy per se. The writing style differs notably from (for example) Edward Abbey or Stephen Jay Gould, who use a medium-size chapter format. Streever. a trained biologst and writer, seems attuned to a world of texting and sound-bytes, shorter sections that may or may not be tightly linked to each other, but collectively do form a whole.
I've ordered extra copies for friends, and my copy, while available for loan to the trust-worthy, is going to be a permanent addition to the book-shelves. Thanks, Bill Streever (and companion): I'll look forward to your next book(s) and am happily re-reading "Heat."
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