Visit Sunny Chernobyl And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places

Name: Visit Sunny Chernobyl And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
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ISBN: 9781605294452

ISBN-10: 1605294454

ISBN-13: 9781605294452

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrew Blackwell

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 5/22/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.29" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Author's Note


Prologue



Visit Sunnay Chernobyl


Day Trips Through a Radioactive Wonderland



The Great Black North


Oil Sands Mining in Northern Alberta



Refinery Ville


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


Acknowledgments


Index