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

About this book

For most of us traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on EarthParis the Taj Mahal the Grand Canyon. Its rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canadas 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 its time to start appreciating our planet as it isnot as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective the book is a love letter to our biospheres 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 rogues gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offerand approaches a deeper understanding of whats really happening to our planet in the process.