Science at the Extreme by Peter Lane Taylor, McGraw Hill, $29.95, ISBN
0071354190
A LAB is not the only arena for research. There are plenty of scientists out
there who are more than willing to risk death for discovery. These addicts of
derring-do are the subject of Peter Lane Taylor’s Science at the
Extreme. A writer, photographer and explorer, Taylor tracks down the most
dangerous pursuits in science, and finds nine of the pursuers.
Hugo Delgado Granados, a Mexican vulcanologist, is one. Taylor tells how he
and Granados made the highest crater landing in history on one of the world’s…
