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  • The Quest

  • Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
  • Written by: Daniel Yergin
  • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
  • Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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The Quest

Written by: Daniel Yergin
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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Publisher's Summary

This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change.

A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them.

The Quest tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising  insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.

©2011 Daniel Yergin (P)2011 Penguin

What the critics say

“It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape...[I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is...the definitive guide to how we got here.” (The Financial Times)

“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes...” (Wall Street Journal)

"[An] important book...a valuable primer on the basic issues that define energy today. Yergin is careful in his analysis and never polemical.... Despite that, The Quest makes it clear that energy policy is not on the right course anywhere in the world and that everyone - on the left and the right, in the developed and the developing world - need to rethink strongly held positions." (Fareed Zakaria, The New York Times Book Review)

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An amazing summary of the history of energy

Covers a wide range of energy sources, political decisions that shaped the industry, and key figures. Got a lot more out of this book than I expected, even after reading 2 other books by this author.

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a must read for energy enthusiast

it is an amazing book that gives a thorough view of the energy evolution, its market, challenges, political challenges, and breakthroughs. I loved the historical element of the book very much because it created a soul for this informational journey. it covers i think all the new ideas and their development story plus so many intriguing historical and biographical points.
The narrator was great. The book is very long thougg about 40 hours of information. fiest half was more interesting for me cause at this moment i am more curious about the fossil fuel journey but the second half was very eye openning (second half is more about newer ideas and electricity and renewables and etc.)
Thank you Daniel for this amazing work. I wish I had read it earlier.

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