Richard Preston

The Hot Zone

The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak

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Produktbeschreibung

COMING TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON 27 MAY 2019_________In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Transworld
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 716172
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780552171649
• ISBN-10: 0552171646
• Artikelnr.: 41354653

Autorenporträt

Richard Preston was born in 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and received a Ph.D from Princeton University. He is the author of The Hot Zone; American Steel (about the Nucor Corporation's project to build a revolutionary steel mill); and First Light (about astronomy and astronomists) which won the American Institute of Physics award in science writing. An asteroid has been named 'Preston' in honour of First Light. Preston is a lump of rock the size of lower Manhattan. It is likely some day to collide with Mars or the Earth. Richard Preston is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and has won numerous awards, including the AAAS-Westinghouse Award and the McDermott Award in the Arts from MIT.

Rezensionen

One of the most terrifying books I've ever read. Move over Stephen King and Michael Crichton - this really happened, within sight of the Washington Monument. And sooner or later it will happen again Arthur C. Clarke