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William Langewiesche

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Description:They were thirty-three men trapped beneath tons of rock half a mile underground. The odds of them making it out alive were almost nil. When they emerged nearly two months later, they were known around the world simply as the Chilean miners, and theirs had become one of the greatest survival stories of our time. But few of us know what really happened above and below the ground at that treacherous mine near Copiapó, Chile.In his extraordinary report on the San Jose mine disaster, William Langewiesche, a two-time National Magazine Award winner and nine-time finalist, brings a cinematic eye for detail to bear on the many stories within the story. First there were the men trapped 2,200 feet below the surface, where they diligently rationed canned peaches as they waited in the dark for rescue. There was the well-intentioned minister of mining, who wanted only to bring the men back alive; a Chilean president perhaps hoping to use the opportunity to bolster his approval ratings; rescuers flown in from around the world, with competing plans of attack. There was the adventurous Hungarian family that built the mine, and the owners who cut corners to keep the business alive. And there was the incessant cry of the pneumatic hammers used to bore half a mile through bedrock, hoping blindly to reach their target.Finally, there was the tense seven-week period during which families waited to see their loved ones again, the elaborate preparations for the rescue ceremony, the psychologists who prepared the miners for the celebrity status that awaited them on the surface. As the decisive moment came near, Langewiesche writes, "a parade of characters kept showing up at the scene priests and preachers, nuns, jugglers, Mormons, mimes, theater troupes, poets, long-distance walkers, a human billboard, and four Uruguayan survivors of the Andean airplane crash described in 'Alive.' "Widely considered to be one of our era’s greatest narrative journalists, Langewiesche has been hailed by the "Washington Post" as a "sharp observer and gifted stylist whose sentences often have a kind of poetic precision." In "Finding the Devil," he uses that precision to unveil truths about human nature during a crisis, and to ask the provocative What is heroism, and what are mere heroics?ABOUT THE AUTHORWilliam Langewiesche is the international correspondent for "Vanity Fair" and the author of several books, including "The Atomic The Rise of the Nuclear Poor," "The Outlaw A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime," "Cutting for Sign," about politics along the U.S.-Mexico border, "Sahara A Journey Across the Desert," " Thoughts on the Experience of Flight," "Fly by Wire," about the successful landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, and "American Unbuilding the World Trade Center," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Langewiesche has won two National Magazine Awards and has been a finalist nine times.PRAISE FOR “FINDING THE DEVIL”Author William Langewiesche goes past [the] long-forgotten pictures and headlines to present a keen, thorough picture of the circumstances surrounding this remarkable event. … His reporting on the miners' remarkable mental and physical stamina, and on the complicated rescue effort and surrounding publicity circus, makes “Finding the Devil” a powerful and entertaining read. —Liz Colville, San Francisco ChroniclePRAISE FOR WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE“[A] formidable talent … whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective.” —The New York Times“Langewiesche’s prose flows seamlessly and elegantly.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Finding the Devil: Darkness, Light, and the Untold Story of the Chilean Mine Disaster (Kindle single). To get started finding Finding the Devil: Darkness, Light, and the Untold Story of the Chilean Mine Disaster (Kindle single), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 70

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Byliner Originals

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1614520526

Description: They were thirty-three men trapped beneath tons of rock half a mile underground. The odds of them making it out alive were almost nil. When they emerged nearly two months later, they were known around the world simply as the Chilean miners, and theirs had become one of the greatest survival stories of our time. But few of us know what really happened above and below the ground at that treacherous mine near Copiapó, Chile.In his extraordinary report on the San Jose mine disaster, William Langewiesche, a two-time National Magazine Award winner and nine-time finalist, brings a cinematic eye for detail to bear on the many stories within the story. First there were the men trapped 2,200 feet below the surface, where they diligently rationed canned peaches as they waited in the dark for rescue. There was the well-intentioned minister of mining, who wanted only to bring the men back alive; a Chilean president perhaps hoping to use the opportunity to bolster his approval ratings; rescuers flown in from around the world, with competing plans of attack. There was the adventurous Hungarian family that built the mine, and the owners who cut corners to keep the business alive. And there was the incessant cry of the pneumatic hammers used to bore half a mile through bedrock, hoping blindly to reach their target.Finally, there was the tense seven-week period during which families waited to see their loved ones again, the elaborate preparations for the rescue ceremony, the psychologists who prepared the miners for the celebrity status that awaited them on the surface. As the decisive moment came near, Langewiesche writes, "a parade of characters kept showing up at the scene priests and preachers, nuns, jugglers, Mormons, mimes, theater troupes, poets, long-distance walkers, a human billboard, and four Uruguayan survivors of the Andean airplane crash described in 'Alive.' "Widely considered to be one of our era’s greatest narrative journalists, Langewiesche has been hailed by the "Washington Post" as a "sharp observer and gifted stylist whose sentences often have a kind of poetic precision." In "Finding the Devil," he uses that precision to unveil truths about human nature during a crisis, and to ask the provocative What is heroism, and what are mere heroics?ABOUT THE AUTHORWilliam Langewiesche is the international correspondent for "Vanity Fair" and the author of several books, including "The Atomic The Rise of the Nuclear Poor," "The Outlaw A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime," "Cutting for Sign," about politics along the U.S.-Mexico border, "Sahara A Journey Across the Desert," " Thoughts on the Experience of Flight," "Fly by Wire," about the successful landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, and "American Unbuilding the World Trade Center," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Langewiesche has won two National Magazine Awards and has been a finalist nine times.PRAISE FOR “FINDING THE DEVIL”Author William Langewiesche goes past [the] long-forgotten pictures and headlines to present a keen, thorough picture of the circumstances surrounding this remarkable event. … His reporting on the miners' remarkable mental and physical stamina, and on the complicated rescue effort and surrounding publicity circus, makes “Finding the Devil” a powerful and entertaining read. —Liz Colville, San Francisco ChroniclePRAISE FOR WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE“[A] formidable talent … whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective.” —The New York Times“Langewiesche’s prose flows seamlessly and elegantly.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Finding the Devil: Darkness, Light, and the Untold Story of the Chilean Mine Disaster (Kindle single). To get started finding Finding the Devil: Darkness, Light, and the Untold Story of the Chilean Mine Disaster (Kindle single), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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