William Langewiesche: 9 books

In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. The Atomic Bazaar is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor....

Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site....

It is as vast as the United States and so arid that most bacteria cannot survive there. Its loneliness is so extreme it is said thatmigratory birds will land beside travelers, just for the company. William Langewiesche came to the Sahara to see it as its inhabitants do, riding its public transport,...

The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free. With...

Questo libro è composto da tre lunghi reportage. Nel primo, William Langewiesche esplora il mondo infero nato sul luogo dove sorgeva il World Trade Center. Nel secondo, ricostruisce momento per momento la dinamica dei crolli. Nel terzo, descrive la lotta quasi per bande che nei mesi successivi all’11...

More than a decade after the publication of Inside the Sky, Aloft is a completely revised, expanded, and updated edition of this classic text, which is widely regarded as the most lyrical and incisive book on flying. In these essays, William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not...

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, managed to glide it to a safe landing...

Gran parte delle centoquarantatremila navi che incrociano al largo delle nostre coste appartengono a compagnie di comodo, imbarcano marinai sprovvisti persino di documenti personali, e possono cambiare più volte bandiera e nome durante la navigazione. Gli oceani sono ormai un’immensa distesa anarchica,...

Gli omicidi e la solitudine di un tiratore scelto dell’esercito americano, e le giornate iperreali dei piloti che da un hangar vicino a Las Vegas guidano i droni sui loro bersagli nelle montagne afghane. Due volti gelidi e feroci di una guerra futura che si combatte già, e che nessuno prima di Langewiesche aveva raccontato.