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