Heat : adventures in the world's fiery places / Bill Streever.

First Back Bay paperback edition.

New York : Back Bay Books, 2013.

xvii, 349 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Includes reading group guide.

Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide as you firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and flame, learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and explore thermo-nuclear weapons and the hottest moment of all time -- the Big Bang.

English

November 14, 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.