Forest D One Way Home

Arsenyev, Vladimir. Illustrated by V. Alexeyev. Translated by V. Shneerson.. DERSU UZALA.. Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, n.d.,
310 pp, small 8vo (7 7/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w drawings. "Two men in a biting blizzard, stranded upon a tiny scrap of firm land amidst deadly swamps. The searing gale knocks them off their feet, snow powders their scantily-covered b acks, the biting wind cuts their faces. They must erect a grass shelter. That is their only hope of salvation. But they are on their last legs, spent by stubborn battle against the raging elements....They are V. Arsenyev, head of an expedition to the Ussuri Territory, and his guide Dersu of the clan of Uzala, the daring hunter and pathfinder. The taiga holds no secrets for him. It is his home. The tracks of birds and animals, the noises and smells of the forest, to Dersu they are an open book. They show him the way he must choose, and give warning of lurking dangers. Big-hearted Dersu saves Arsenyev's life on more than one occasion. He helps the expedition out of numerous desperate situations. And it is to Dersu that Arsenyev d edicates this true story of his two Ussuri expeditions of 1906 and 1907. The book abounds in exciting adventure and holds a wealth of fascinating facts about the taiga and its denizens. It tells about the terrible Ussuri tiger, the blood-thirsty p anther, the brown bear, and the stately deer. The story of Dersu inspires a sense of love for the backwoods, the deep rivers and the blue hills of the Ussuri Territory." Light browning to endpapers, two tiny 2 digit number stamps on last page, sli ght bump to corners of boards, tiny ink mark on top edge of front board, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket has moderate edge wear/wrinkling, small chips and tears, slight darkening to spine and flap-folds, a few tiny rubs/scuffs on front panel, very light rubbing, browning on inside surface of panels, light wrinkling on spine. Very Good/Good-.

[SW: USSURI TERRITORY UZALA HUNTING HUNTERS TAIGA TRACKING TIGERS PANTHERS,]

Details

Andrew Schneider; David McCumber. An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal. Berkley Trade, 2005
0425200094 From Publishers Weekly As part of a year-long investigation into the impact of the General Mining Act, which let corporations buy land cheaply from the government, Schneider, senior national correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, met with Gayla Benefield, a resident and activist in Libby, Mont. Benefield's extensive knowledge of the area and the number of people suffering from asbestos-related illnesses impressed Schneider. He began his own digging, talking to lawyers, residents, environmental experts and staffers at the EPA, and even had tests conducted. This book chronicles his inquiry into an enormous coverup by Grace Corporation, which ran the Zonolite factory. Schneider and McCumber, managing editor at the newspaper, have written a compelling and frightening story about the victims-the people who worked in the factory and other local residents who weren't employees-suffering from life-threatening ailments. The authors focus on the individuals rather than the legal wrangling, court cases or scientific research. For example, in describing the matter-of-fact way employees handled the asbestos dust, they compellingly write: "Each floor was worse than the last. Les' battle with the never-ending blizzard of dust was truly mythical in proportion, like Hercules cleaning the Augean stables.... When he got on the bus to ride back to town that night, he was covered in dust, just like everybody else. His hair was coated, his ears and his nose were plugged up. His throat felt like sandpaper. The dust in his mouth and nose felt like thick brown syrup...." With Benefield-who's reminiscent of Erin Brockovich-at the center of the story, the authors have written a first-rate book about a contemporary American tragedy. Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist *Starred Review* News media take a lot of criticism these days, often deservedly, but sometimes the fourth estate comes to our aid when all other institutions fail. Here, Schneider and McCumber build on the story they broke in 1999 for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Vermiculite miners in remote Libby, Montana, were dying. Worse, their spouses and children were dying, too. Vermiculite is used in construction materials, insulation, gardening, and elsewhere. The vermiculite found in Libby is contaminated with tremolite, a particularly lethal form of asbestos, which dusted the workers and the town and which companies Zonolite and W. R. Grace said was harmless. This is a tale of chilling employer cynicism, of government collusion, and, fortunately, of an alert reporter, a committed community activist, and an EPA worker who fought his own agency to do what was right. Still, Libby's environmental catastrophe is worse than Love Canal's--and because asbestos still hasn't been banned, citizens weren't and won't be the only ones to suffer. In this remarkable book, the authors construct a rich, compelling narrative that includes both hard science and touching stories. Schneider and McCumber have clearly chosen a side, but to take the other is to value money over human life. An essential entry in the annals of corporate amorality. Keir Graff Copyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 25, 2004 An Air That Kills...in the tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring...is a book of highest service and integrity. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description An Air That Kills is the horrifying true story of the decades-long poisoning of a small town and the definitive expos? of asbestos in America-all told by the prize-winning journalists who broke it. This is the story of miners who were unaware of the toxins they took into their lungs, then brought home in their clothes-infecting their families. It is the story of the ongoing use of asbestos in products ranging from insulation to cat litter. It is the story behind the George W. Bush administration's successful campaign to cover up the full extent of the post-9/11 asbestos problem in Lower Manhattan. But it is also the story of the townspeople and government workers who took on the government in Washington to demand justice for those who died-and those who are still dying-of preventable exposure to asbestos. About the Author Andrew Schneider is deputy managing editor for investigation for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' public service award, the George Polk Award, and others. David McCumber is managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He won the Don Bolles Award for investigative journalism. His previous books include The Cowboy Way, Playing Off the Rail, and X-Rated: The Mitchell Brothers. February 20 / 22, 2004 Greed, Apathy, Dead People An Air That Kills By JOHN HOLT AN AIR THAT KILLS: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal is about small-town Montana and the devastating horrors visited on it by a vermiculite mine owned by those fun-loving corporate bastards at W.R. Grace & Co, and the Zonolite Company before it. The mining of vermiculite, used in products ranging from insulation to potting soil, led to exposure to asbestos that caused and is causing the deaths of hundreds of Libby residents. Grace knew of the dangers, but didn't tell the workers or their families of the deadly dangers associated with living in an environment where more than two and a half tons of asbestos were released into the town's air every day, when One heavy exposure or even one tiny fiber can inaugurate the downward spiral to the grave. A third of the town received what one Libby resident accurately described as "the death sentence," possible lung abnormalities which could indicate early stages of asbestosis (a malignant disease caused by minute but lethal knife-like fibers of asbestos that causing hardening of delicate lung tissue, among other things, and makes breathing impossible in its final stages). Miners who'd worked for Grace or Zonolite were hardest hit. Almost half of these former employees had signs of the disease that would guarantee them a lingering and painful death. The national average for these diseases in a community is 2 percent or less. I'm not known for impartiality. That's not my style. When it comes to writing about An Air That Kills by Andrew Schneider and David McCumber I don't have a chance. McCumber was my editor at Big Sky Journal when the magazine premiered oh so long ago. Before taking the job of managing editor at the Seattle Post Intelligencer he was my neighbor in Livingston, Montana. We're close friends. And one of the main attorneys representing the victims in this horribly revealing book is Jon Heberling, an individual who is not only a long-time friend, but someone I had the privilege of working with when we shut down the Flathead National Forest's lunatic Forest Plan of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He's also the godfather of my daughter, Rachel. And I used to live in Whitefish, Montana just a short drive over the mountains from where this book takes place. I spent many days cruising over to Libby to fish the Kootenai River for rainbow and cutthroat trout, and the rare redband trout in little streams way back up in the timbered mountains that surround the valley. Not once did any of those I came in contact with, individuals that profited by living in the Libby area, mention the problem ? not the guides and outfitters, not the local Chamber of Commerce, not any of the town's merchants, not a noted writer I spent a little time with who lives in the area. Nobody. And they all knew. How could they not have known when men, and later wives and children, had died and were dying hellish deaths...

First Trade, Trade Paperback, New

Details