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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Blackwell, Andrew, 1972-     Subjects     Tourism -- Environmental aspects.     Pollution.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Blackwell, Andrew, 1972-       by title:      Visit sunny Chernoby...         MARC Display

Visit sunny Chernobyl : and other adventures in the world's most polluted places / Andrew Blackwell. by Blackwell, Andrew, 1972- New York : Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2012. Subjects Tourism -- Environmental aspects.   Pollution. ISBN:  9781605294452 (hardcover) 1605294454 (hardcover) Description:  xiii, 306 p. : maps ; 24 cm. 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 Eighth 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Ewa Beach P/S Library YA -- Nonfiction 363.73 BL Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.73 Bl Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 363.73 Blackwell Checked out 06/28/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 363.73 Bl Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 363.73 Bl Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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