Dangerous World
Natural Disasters Manmade Catastrophes And Future Human Survival
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2009
- Category
- Natural Disasters, Environmental Science, Earthquakes & Volcanoes
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143051091
- Publish Date
- Mar 2009
- List Price
- $19.00
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Description
Tsunami, earthquake, hurricane, pandemic—are these and other natural calamities more probable, and more frequent, than they were? Are things getting worse? De Villiers examines these questions in a time when we truly need to understand the dangers ahead and how to act in such a way that we're preparing for the inevitable and not making things worse.
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.