Dangerous World
Natural Disasters Manmade Catastrophes And Futr Of Humn Survival
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2008
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780670065684
- Publish Date
- Mar 2008
- List Price
- $35
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143051091
- Publish Date
- Mar 2009
- List Price
- $19.00
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Description
Tsunami, earthquake, volcano, hurricane, pandemic—are these and other natural calamities more probable—and more frequent—than they were? Are things gettng worse? If so, what can we do about it? Are the boundaries between natural and human-caused calamities blurring? Are we ourselves part of the problem? In Dangerous World, de Villiers examines these questions in a time when we truly need to understand the dangers that we face, to act in such a way that we are not making things worse, and to prepare as best we can for the inevitable disasters when they come.
About the author
Born in South Africa, Marq de Villiers is a veteran Canadian journalist and the author of thirteen books on exploration, history, politics, and travel, including Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (winner of the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction), Down the Volga in a Time of Troubles, and Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires, written with Sheila Hirtle. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and through Eastern Europe and spent many years as Editor and then Publisher of Toronto Life magazine. Most recently he was Editorial Director of WHERE Magazines International.
 
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