Rust: The Longest War (Audio book)

"It has been called 'the great destroyer' and 'the evil.' The Pentagon refers to it as 'the pervasive menace.' It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house fires, and nearly brought down the Statue of Liberty. Rust costs America more than $400 billion per year--more than all other natural disasters combined. In Rust, journalist Jonathan Waldman travels from Key West, Florida, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to meet the colorful and often reclusive people concerned with corrosion"--Publisher's website.

About the author

Jonathan Waldman has written for Outside, The Washington Post, and McSweeney's, and also worked as a forklift driver, arborist, summer camp director, sticker salesman, and cook. He grew up in Washington, DC, studied writing at Dartmouth and Boston University's Knight Center for Science Journalism, and was recently a Ted Scripps Fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado. Rust is his first book. Visit him online at jonnywaldman.com.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Waldman
• Assisted by: Christopher Lane (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio (Playing time: 14h 0min)
• Released: 22.03.2016
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 140 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries