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  • Published: 1 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781623360269
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99

Visit Sunny Chernobyl

Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places




Nuclear exclusion zones, cities thick with smog, mid-Pacific islands of rubbish - it's the planet as you've never seen it before

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 set sail for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth. 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-is—not as we wish it to be. 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.

  • Published: 1 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781623360269
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Andrew Blackwell

ANDREW BLACKWELL has worked as film editor, story consultant and reporter on projects featured on NPR, PBS, the BBC, the New York Times online, and in the weekly news magazine Dan Rather Reports. He lives in New York City.