Volume 55, Number 11 · June 26, 2008
The UN and the Race Against Death
By Brian Urquhart
A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity
by Jan Egeland
Simon and Schuster, 253 pp., $27.00
Jan Egeland's A Billion Lives is about human disasters, current efforts to deal with them, and what could work better in the future. The billion lives of the title are those 'of fellow human beings without drinking water, daily food, or even a dollar a day to survive on' and who, incidentally, are the most vulnerable of the victims of both natural and man-made disasters. Egeland's book is, in my experience, unique in its approach to these problems, being at the same time immensely well informed, practical, and optimistic.
Review, 4045 words
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