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Nonfiction Reviews

Publishers Weekly, 2020, Vol.267 (34)

New York: PWxyz, LLC

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    Nonfiction Reviews
  • Subjects: Alliances ; Assassinations & assassination attempts ; Biological & chemical weapons ; Birds ; Clean technology ; Espionage ; Essays ; Friendship ; Metals ; Mines ; Nonfiction ; Poets ; Publishing ; Rilke, Rainer Maria von (1875-1926) ; Writers
  • Is Part Of: Publishers Weekly, 2020, Vol.267 (34)
  • Description: Warrick traces the decadeslong buildup of the Syrian government’s chemical weapons stockpile; its sporadic use against rebels, including a 2013 sarin attack near Damascus that may have killed 1,429 people; the American diplomatic push—after President Obama called chemical attacks a “red line” that Syria’s government must not cross—that yielded an agreement to destroy the country’s “declared” stockpile; its shipboard destruction in 2014 by a portable hydrolysis device nicknamed the “Margarita Machine” by “a Pentagon wag”; and later chemical weapons programs and chlorine-gas attacks by ISIS militants. Warrick balances harrowing reports of poisoned children dying of paralysis and asphyxiation with vibrant character sketches of Syrian spies and medical workers, UN chemical-weapons investigators braving sniper fire, and American engineers facing toxic spills, hostile environmentalist flotillas, and the possible capsizing of their ship. Comstock Publishing, 22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5017-5091-5 Rogers (My Reach), a visiting associate professor of writing at Bard College, assembles an exquisite array of diverse voices united by a shared love of birding. Each of the following essays explores birding as an art of wanderlust and extreme patience while highlighting varied species, in habitats from the shoreline of the Sargasso Sea in Bermuda (where Jenn Dean describes how the cahow, a species thought extinct since the 17th century, was rediscovered in the 20th) to the North Dakota prairie (where Richard Bohannon considers the Baird’s sparrow and the Sprague’s pipit, both small, unremarkable-looking species known in the birding world as LBJs, or “little brown jobs”).
  • Publisher: New York: PWxyz, LLC
  • Language: English
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