A swashbuckling texan a teller of tall tales a womanizer and a renegade fred cuny spent his life in countries rent by war famine and natural disasters saving many thousands of lives through his innovative and sometimes controversial methods of relief work cuny earned his nickname master of disaster for his exploits in kurdistan somalia and bosnia but when he arrived in the rogue russian republic of chechnya in the spring of 1995 raring to go and eager to put his ample funds . Scott andersons the man who tried to save the world is a taut thriller of wartime intrigue that also happens to be true through the story of fred cunys disappearance anderson gives us the story of chechnya and he does so with a reporters exactitude and a novelists sense of the tragic and absurd a powerful many layered book. The man who tried to save the world the dangerous life and mysterious disappearance of an american hero by scott anderson 2000 05 16 scott anderson isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. A remarkable story of the genius of one man whose passion saved thousands in some of the most desperate parts of the world from natural disasters to war torn venues fred cuny was there bringing relief and constructive help in a way no other organization had done before his passion took him to chechnya and then took him back a second time it appears he had a premonition of the dangers lying ahead on his second mission fred and his three companions disappeared not even fred cuny could survi. The man who tried to save the world the dangerous life and mysterious disappearance of fred cuny by scott anderson 2000 06 01 isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon