Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science

摘要

Preston's style of journalism, he says, is the equivalent of climbing into a boiling pot to better understand soup.rnIn this collection, Preston describes some of his close encounters with the subjects he has written about, telling, for example, how he donned a "spacesuit" to visit a high-security U.S. Army lab where researchers study Ebola virus (the subject of Preston's celebrated thriller The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story).rnHe goes on to describe how he climbed the tallest tree east of the Mississippi River, right after it had been killed by an invasive species-a tiny bug from Japan.rnAnd, in another chapter, he recalls the time he spent with sufferers of arnrare genetic disorder who hurt and bit themselves.