| Description |
xviii, 403 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Part One.A New Star in the Indian Sky 1 -- 1.Firecrackers That Kill, Cows That Die, Insects That -- Murder 3 -- 2.The Planetary Holocaust Wrought by Armies of Ravaging -- Insects 17 -- 3.A Neighborhood Called Orya Bustee 23 -- 4.A Visionary Billionaire to the Rescue of Humanity's Food 31 -- 5.Three Zealots on the Banks of the Hudson 37 -- 6.The Daily Heroism of the People of the Bustees 41 -- 7.An American Valley That Ruled the World 47 -- 8.A Little Mouse under the Seats of Bhopal's Trains 53 -- 9.A Poison That Smelled Like Boiled Cabbage 59 -- 10.They Deserved the Mercy of God 65 -- 11.'A Hand for the Future" 71 -- 12.A Promised Land on the Ruins of a -- Legendary Kingdom 79 -- 13.A Continent of Three Hundred Million Peasants and -- Six Hundred Languages 83 -- 14.Some Very Peculiar Pimps 89 -- 15.A Plant as "Inoffensive as a Chocolate Factory" 97 -- 16.A New Star in the Indian Sky 107 -- 17."They'll Never Dare Send in Their Bulldozers" 113 -- 18.Wages of Fear on the Roads of Maharashtra 121 -- 19.The Lazy Poets' Circle 129 -- 20."Carbide Has Poisoned Our Water!" 137 -- 21.The First Deadly Drops from the "Beautiful Plant" 147 -- 22.Three Tanks Dressed up for a Carnival 151 -- 23."Half a Million Hours of Work and Not a Day Lost" 159 -- 24.Everlasting Roots in the Black Earth of the -- Kali Grounds 165 -- Part Two.A Night Blessed by the Stars 171 -- 25.A Gas That Makes You Laugh Before It Kills You 173 -- 26."You Will Be Reduced to Dust" 183 -- 27.Ali Baba's Treasure for the Heroes of the -- Kali Grounds 191 -- 28.The Sudden Arrival of a Cost-Cutting Gentleman 199 -- 29."My Beautiful Plant Was Losing Its Soul" 207 -- 30.The Fiances of the Orya Bustee 215 -- 31.The End of a Young Indian's Dream 223 -- 32.The Vengeance of the People of the Kali Grounds 229 -- 33.Festivities That Set Hearts Ablaze 243 -- 34.A Sunday Unlike Any Other 247 -- 35.A Night Blessed by the Stars 257 -- Part Three.Three Sarcophagi under the Moon 267 -- 36.Three Sarcophagi under the Moon 269 -- 37."What if the Stars Were to Go on Strike?" 277 -- 38.Geysers of Death 287 -- 39.Lungs Bursting in the Heart of the Night 295 -- 40."Something Beyond All Comprehension" 307 -- 41."All Hell Has Broken Loose Here!" 323 -- 42.A Half-Naked Holy Man in the Heart of a -- Deadly Cloud 335 -- 43.The Dancing Girl Was Not Dead 345 -- 44."Death to the Killer Anderson!" 357 -- 45."Carbide Has Made Us the Center of the World" 367.ct 147 -- 2 The |
| Summary |
"One of the premier historians of our time, Dominique Lapierre is the author of such stirring classics as Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joy. Famed for uncovering the humanity in historic events, he here joins forces with acclaimed writer Javier Moro. Together they investigate and chronicle each fateful moment counting down to what happened." "Union Carbide was a huge American corporation whose leaders had only the best intentions. In New York they invented a miracle insecticide. In ancient Bhopal, they formulated the lethal gas needed to produce it and built a giant plant to process it." |
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"But at five past midnight on December 3, 1984, toxic gas leaked out of a pesticide tank. By one-thirty geysers were spitting poison into the night wind. The apocalypse had begun. Banks of deadly fog filled nearby slums. Lungs burst. Corneas burned. Death would strike in seconds and no one was prepared: neither the bride at her wedding banquet nor the peasants who came to Bhopal for a better life, nor the shoemaker rousing his neighbors to flee their huts nor the Scottish nun risking all to rescue lost children. By night's end, over half a million Bhopalis were drowning in pain and chaos, and between 16,000 and 30,000 would die in the worst industrial disaster in history."--BOOK JACKET |
| Subject |
Pesticides industry -- Accidents -- India
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Pesticides industry -- Accidents -- India -- Bhopal
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Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984
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| Author |
Moro, Javier, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2002100974 |
| ISBN |
0446530883 |
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