Results for "Egan, Dan"

A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Staff Favorite of 2023 The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over the world. Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. ... Read More about The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, N... Read More about The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year "Lively…and thought-provoking.” —Robert W. Howarth, Science The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over the world. Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebomb... Read More about The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award A landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface f... Read More about The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Sheltered in a snow cave on Mount Elbrus, Dan Egan stares into the mouth of a storm on the tallest mountain on the European continent, a merciless mountain that claims more lives per year than Everest. In the belly of the beast, Egan takes stock of every moment that brought him here-the life of a Bo... Read More about Thirty Years in a White Haze: Dan Egan's Story of Worldwide Adventure 
and the Evolution of Extreme Skiing

"Sheltered in a snow cave on Mount Elbrus in 1990, I stared into the mouth of a storm on the tallest peak on the European continent, a merciless mountain that claims more lives per year than Everest. When I emerged from the white haze of that storm alive, after so many had perished, I had no idea ho... Read More about Thirty Years in a White Haze: Dan Egan's Story of Worldwide Adventure 
and the Evolution of Extreme Skiing