Two books by Bill Streever
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Overview: Dr. Bill Streever started his working life as a commercial diver in harbors and oilfields in Maine, the Gulf of Mexico, and the South China Sea. Later, with a fellowship from the National Science Foundation, he compared natural wetlands and wetlands created on phosphate-mined lands, leading to a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He then worked for the University of Newcastle in Australia, where he developed a broad research program linked to the Kooragang Wetland Rehabilitation Project. After returning to the United States, he conducted research throughout the country for the Waterways Experiment Station, a federal government laboratory.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Educational, Science, Travel, History
Cold (#1) From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton’s expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold–real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet’s ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October while exploring hibernation habits in animals, from humans to wood frogs to bears.
A scientist whose passion for cold runs red hot, Streever is a wondrous guide: he conjures woolly mammoth carcasses and the ice-age Clovis tribe from melting glaciers, and he evokes blizzards so wild readers may freeze–limb by vicarious limb.
Heat (#2) An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, 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?
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 signature spare and refreshing 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.
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