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Original Title:	Visit Sunny Chernobyl: Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
ISBN:	1623360269 (ISBN13: 9781623360269)
Edition Language:	English

Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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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 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.

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Title	:	Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
Author	:	Andrew Blackwell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	May 28th 2013 by Rodale Books (first published May 22nd 2012)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Environment. Science. History. Autobiography. Memoir

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This is an immensely informative book on different types of pollution world wide. Its also a great travelogue as the author unearths information and explores the personalities who live in these areas. One of the strengths of the book is the variety of sites under scrutiny. The author is not out to lay blame on evil-doers; but he literally exposes what life is like in these areas.The diversity of habitats gives us a view of how the people live except in one area, but a little about this later.

Excerpted from the full review:"If Andrew Blackwells book were a boy you used to date, hed be the cardigan-clad loner whod nick your dads best weed and keep you up all night with hot, intellectual discourse. Hes not necessarily the one you want for homecoming, but God, how youd like to travel the world in his post-anarchic company.And travel the world you will, in Visit Sunny Chernobyl. Oh, the places youll go!♦ Northern Alberta, to check out some oil sands mining;♦ Port Arthur, Texas, where the

A tale that finds the author visiting Chernobyl and six other of the most polluted places on Earth. It's fascinating people find this an adventurous form of travel. I found Chernobyl, Alberta Canada and Texas the most interesting and well written of the 7 excursions.

Visit Sunny Chernobyl and Other Adventures in the Worlds Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell had an instant appeal for me. I love travel books, I did my Peace Corps service in tiny Moldova (a close neighbor to the Ukraine which took a giant hit of the Chernobyl radiation due to the winds that day) so I appreciate off-beat places, and like many people I desperately want to find out more about pollution around the globe, how it affects my family and how it can be reduced. Sunny Chernobyl met

I felt a little conflicted about this book. Taking the book at face value, I really enjoyed it. Blackwell has a surprising way with words and his story telling is at times laugh out loud funny and endearing. Overall, he's not the investigative journalist many people assume he would be with writing a book about "the most polluted places on earth." I would have liked a deeper investigation into many of the places he visits, but that's not the point of his book. He put himself out there for an

I only read the section on Chernobyl, but it was excellent.

"Visit Sunny Chernobyl," or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Polluted Planet I'm a fan of both adventure travel writing and ecological nonfiction, and Visit Sunny Chernobyl is a solid, highly entertaining instance of both. Blackwell doesn't necessarily claim to be writing either, though -- he's just a tourist who wants to vacation in the world's most polluted places, and has written the missing travel guide for pollution tourism.It's a brilliant conceit. But what makes the book