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Blackwell, Andrew, 1972-
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Blackwell, Andrew, 1972- -- Travel.
Tourism -- Environmental aspects.
Pollution.
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Blackwell, Andrew, 1972-
Blackwell, Andrew, 1972- -- Travel.
Tourism -- Environmental aspects.
Pollution.
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Visit
sunny
Chernobyl
: and
other
adventures
in the
world
's
most
polluted
places
/ Andrew Blackwell.
by
Blackwell, Andrew, 1972-
Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2012.
Call #:
363.73 B632v
Subjects
Blackwell, Andrew, 1972- -- Travel.
Tourism -- Environmental aspects.
Pollution.
ISBN:
9781605294452 (hc.)
1605294454 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 306 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Visit
sunny
Chernobyl
: day trips through a radioactive wonderland -- The Great Black North: oil sands mining in Northern Alberta -- Refineryville: Port Arthur, Texas, and the invention of oil -- The 8th Continent: sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- Soymageddon: deforestation in the Amazon -- In search of Sad Coal Man: E-waste, coal, and
other
treasures of China -- The gods of Sewage: downstream on India'
s
most
polluted
river.
Summary:
For
most
of us, traveling means visiting the
most
beautiful
places
on Earth--Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It'
s
rare to book a plane ticket to
visit
the lifeless moonscape of Canada'
s
oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the
most
polluted
in the
world
. But in "
Visit
Sunny
Chernobyl
," Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the
most
gruesomely
polluted
places
on Earth. From the hidden bars and convenience stores of a radioactive wilderness to the sacred but reeking waters of India, "
Visit
Sunny
Chernobyl
"fuses immersive first-person reporting with satire and analysis, making the case that it'
s
time to start appreciating our planet as it is--not as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective, the book is a love letter to our biosphere's
most
tainted,
most
degraded ecosystems, and a measured consideration of what they mean for us. Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue'
s
gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the
world
has to offer--and approaches a deeper understanding of what'
s
really happening to our planet in the process.
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