Zero Tolerance Tapa dura - 1997

New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374296626. 245 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature America Vietnam. FROM THE PUBLISHER - November 1973. The war in Vietnam is already lost. The United States decides to send the Bureau of Reclamation to build a dam on the Mekong River near a village called Da Trinh Sanh. The dam will divert the river from the rice basket of Asia, the Mekong Delta, and destroy the country. It is the biggest operation of the war and the largest public-works project ever. Twenty years later, four people are trying to put together what happened. Why did the dam fail? How close did they come to destroying Vietnam? They were all there, but they all remember different things. One was on a gunboat on the river, one was an engineer on the dam, one was a biologist in Saigon, one was a photographer in the field. None of them can quite tell the whole story. Zero Tolerance is the story of their contact with the Bureau of Reclamation, which is not… Leer más

New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 0374296626. 245 pages. paperback. . keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - November 1973. The war in Vietnam is already lost. The United States decides to send the Bureau of Reclamation to build a dam on the Mekong River near a village called Da Trinh Sanh. The dam will divert the river from the rice basket of Asia, the Mekong Delta, and destroy the country. It is the biggest operation of the war and the largest public-works project ever. Twenty years later, four people are trying to put together what happened. Why did the dam fail? How close did they come to destroying Vietnam? They were all there, but they all remember different things. One was on a gunboat on the river, one was an engineer on the dam, one was a biologist in Saigon, one was a photographer in the field. None of them can quite tell the whole story. Zero Tolerance is the story of their contact with the Bureau of Reclamation, which is not merely… Leer más

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Michael Ian Kaye (Jacket Design); William C. Blizzard (Jacket Photo); Jerry Bauer (Author Photo); Fritz Metsch (Design). 245 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, First printing. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have the tiniest bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well packaged, All-Ways fast service..

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997T. hardcover. Good. 1.0000 8.3000 5.9000. Ex-library copy with usual markings.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. Hard Cover. 0374296626 (D145) .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.