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001			ocn755698691
003			OCoLC
005			20241104192808.0
008			120111s2012 nyub 001 0 eng
010			_a 2011053229
020			_a9781605294452 (hardcover)
020			_a1605294454 (hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)755698691
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dYDX _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dBDX _dMLY _dIK2 _dBWX _dZJI _dCDX _dVP@ _dABG _dTBS _dCNR
042			_apcc
049			_aCNRM
050	0	0	_aG156.5.E58 _bB53 2012
090			_aG156.5.E58 _bB53 2012
100	1		_aBlackwell, Andrew, _d1972- _92016
245	1	0	_aVisit Sunny Chernobyl : _band Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places.
264			_aNew York : _bRodale : _bDistributed to the trade by Macmillan, _cc2012.
300			_axiii, 306 p. : _bmaps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aVisit 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.
520			_aFor 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.
650		0	_aTourism _xEnvironmental aspects. _92017
650		0	_aPollution. _92018
942			_cBOOK _2lcc
999			_c58531 _d58531