The Geographer Spring 2014 | Page 32

Book Club Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places Bill Streever (Back Bay, December 2013) 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 signatu