Diseño de la portada del título BOOM

BOOM

Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever

Muestra

Suscríbete a la prueba gratuita para poder disfrutar de este libro a un precio exclusivo para suscriptores

Pagar 2,09 € con prueba
Después de los 30 días, 9,99 €/mes. Cancela cuando quieras
Disfruta de más de 90.000 títulos de forma ilimitada.
Escucha cuando y donde quieras, incluso sin conexión
Sin compromiso. Cancela gratis cuando quieras.

BOOM

De: Tony Horwitz
Narrado por: Matt Morel
Pagar 2,09 € con prueba

Después de los 30 días, 9,99 €/mes. Cancela cuando quieras.

Compra ahora por 2,99 €

Compra ahora por 2,99 €

Confirma la compra
Paga utilizando la tarjeta terminada en
Al confirmar tu compra, aceptas las Condiciones de Uso de Audible y nos autorizas a realizar el cobro mediante los métodos de pago por ti designados. Por favor revisa nuestra Política de Privacidad, Política de cookies y Aviso sobre anuncios basados en intereses
Cancelar

Acerca de este título

In BOOM, prize-winning reporter Tony Horwitz takes a spirited road trip through the wild new frontier of energy in North America. His journey begins in subarctic Alberta, where thousands of miners labor in an industrial moonscape to extract the region's oil-rich tar sands. Horwitz then follows the route of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that may carry tar-sands oil from Canada across Montana, the Dakotas, and Nebraska en route to Gulf Coast refineries.

Horwitz's 4,000 mile adventure brings him into contact with astonishing characters on all sides of the energy boom. He meets "rig pigs" and "cement heads" hoping to make a quick fortune laboring in the oilfields; casino operators and strippers eager to relieve workers of their high wages; farmers and Native Americans who fear the pipeline's impact on land, water, and climate; and Keystone cowboys who tout the economic benefits of the oil rush in progress on the Plains.

BOOM is both a gritty, boots-on-the ground odyssey and a profound exploration of what's at stake - for the environment, the economy, and foreign policy - as America becomes the largest energy producer in the world.

About the Author

Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent a decade as a foreign correspondent, mainly covering wars and conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe for the Wall Street Journal. His books include the best sellers Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, Baghdad Without a Map, and A Voyage Long and Strange. His latest book, Midnight Rising, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and one of the year's ten best books by Library Journal and won the 2012 William Henry Seward Award for excellence in Civil War biography.

Horwitz has also written for The New Yorker and Smithsonian and has been a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute. He lives with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their sons, Nathaniel and Bizu, on Martha's Vineyard.

©2014 Tony Horwitz (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
Ciencias políticas Medioambiente Naturaleza y ecología Política pública

Reseñas de la crítica

" Boom is the very model of dauntless reporting, lucent prose, memorable portraits of a range of characters, all in a story driven by a moral dilemma with stakes that couldn't possibly be higher.” ( San Francisco Chronicle)

Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre BOOM

Valoración media de los usuarios. Solo los usuarios que hayan escuchado el título pueden escribir reseñas.

Reseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.