Pipeline Runs Through It

''Fascinating revelations'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times

''An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry'' The Economist

''The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading'' Michael Klare

Petroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah''s Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth i...