Sebastião Salgado. Kuwait. a Desert on Fire

by Sebastião Salgado

"We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such apocalypse is always just around the corner." --Sebasti o Salgado

In January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein's troops retaliated with an inferno. At some 700 oil wells and an unspecified number of oil-filled low-lying areas they ignited vast, raging fires,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836561255
• ISBN13: 9783836561259
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 4.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 12.8" x 11.5"