
Visit Sunny Chernobyl
And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
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Narrado por:
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Ax Norman
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Andrew Blackwell
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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Great narrator, though. I probably wouldn't have held on as long if i'd been reading it in hardcopy.
Non-fiction lite
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This is more than just look at the polluted sites. He interacts with the locals, all of them surprisingly adapted to living with their situations. In some places there is ongoing coverup which he tries to circumvent. In other locations the pollution is blatant and the locals are immersed in it on a daily basis.I was not aware of some sites, some sources of pollution, nor the extent of the problems. Compared to the size of the problems, there seems to be little effort to stop/clean up the messes.
I was a bit weary of it all by the time the book ended.
Ax Norman does a great narration of this material.
Good travelog, dry material
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
Blackwell's travelogue has some interesting parts (oil sands gift store anyone?) and the tongue in cheek manner keeps thing from getting too heavy. A balanced environmentalist view is woven through this recognizing our inherent conflict between conservation and what maintains our lifestyles. Still some parts are more interesting than others and I can't really say I learned a lot from this book. In fact, I found it less interesting and somewhat repetitive the further I read. Still, it is a lightweight page turner that is hard not to like and you can fast forward through parts and probably not feel you have missed anything. The narration is good.Lightweight fun but wears thin after awhile
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Better than I predicted
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Before reading I was interested particularly on the chapter about Amazon rainforest destruction. But all the chapters are remarkable registries. Sad to realize the web of destruction of nature and men themselves
Good perspective about environmental disasters
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Any additional comments?
Interesting information, however it just seemed the India visit was the weakest in information and storytelling.Interesting, however seemed to drag at the end
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Very little on Chernobyl
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Would you try another book from Andrew Blackwell and/or Ax Norman?
No because these authors are bias. They are admittedly die hard environmentalists with no regard for the benefits of all types of energy except for tree hugger versionsNot fair and balanced at all
How could the performance have been better?
Yes the narrator was boringWhat reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
DissapointmentAny additional comments?
All references to the Cernobyl disaster are copied text from other reference booksHas little to do with reality
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This book is not at all serious.
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