Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Autor Kate Brownen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2020
'The most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich'Irish Times
** National Book Critics Circle Finalist 2019 **
The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there. Yet award-winning historian Kate Brown uncovers a much more disturbing story, one in which radioactive isotopes caused hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the magnitude of the disaster has been actively suppressed.
For years after, Soviet scientists, bureaucrats and civilians were documenting staggering increases in birth defects, child mortality, cancers and other life-altering diseases. Worried that this evidence would blow the lid on the effects of radiation release from Cold War weapons-testing, scientists and diplomats from international organizations, including the UN, tried to bury or discredit it. Brown also encounters many everyday heroes, often women, who fought to bring attention to the ballooning human and ecological catastrophe, and adapt to life in a post-nuclear landscape, where the dangerous effects of radiation persist today.
Based on a decade of archival and on-the-ground research,Manual for Survivalis a gripping historical detective story that brings to light the real consequences of Chernobyl - and the plot to cover them up.
'A troubling book, passionately written and deeply researched'Sunday Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141988542
ISBN-10: 0141988541
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141988541
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Kate
Brownis
the
author
ofA
Biography
of
No
Place,
which
won
the
George
Louis
Beer
Prize
from
the
American
Historical
Association
for
the
best
book
in
International
History,
andPlutopia,
which
won
seven
awards,
including
the
Dunning
and
Beveridge
prizes
from
the
American
Historical
Association
for
the
best
book
in
American
history.
She
is
the
first
historian
of
the
Soviet
Union
to
be
nominated
to
the
honorary
Society
of
American
Historians,
and
her
research
has
been
funded
by
the
American
Academy
in
Berlin
and
by
Carnegie
and
Guggenheim
fellowships.
She
teaches
environmental
and
nuclear
history
at
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology,
Baltimore
County,
and
lives
in
Washington,
DC.
Recenzii
Amagisterial
blendof
historical
research,
investigative
journalism
and
poetic
reportage,
Kate
Brown
sets
out
to
uncover
Chernobyl's
true
medical
and
environmental
effects
.
.
.
anawe-inspiring
journey.
This thrilling, frightening book tells the truth about the Chernobyl disaster . . .the most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich.
Anastonishingunconventional history.
Brown'spage-turnerskilfully weaves anoriginal narrativeon the long-term medical effects of the Chernobyl disaster...Her capacity to immerse herself and pick up on nuancesbrings these stories from factory workers, technicians, doctors and villagers alive.
Exemplary... Brown is an indomitable researcher
Full of passion. . . [an]admirable uncovering of the hidden storybehind Chernobyl.
Vital work, making a convincing casefor the catastrophic long-term medical and ecological effects of the disaster
A troubling book, passionately written and deeply researched ... the book moves from science to thriller and realm of conspiracy... there is no doubt about Brown's gift for vivid narrative. Her conclusion is chilling.
A humane book about the irreversible things a technological disaster does to people and landscapes.
Amagnificent monographthat stands out among the multiple books on Chernobyl simply because ittells us the truth- the whole unadulterated truth - about one of the worst disasters in history. As such, it may itself be regarded as a survival manual of sorts. And a guide to the future, too.
Help[s] us comprehend, both emotionally and rationally, a disaster so great that future scholars will detect it thousands years from now, whether they have written accounts of it or not.
Kate Brown [...] shows that there are still many ways to tell this story, and that the lessons of Chernobyl remain unresolved ... Brown argues persuasively that [researchers] are grossly underestimating the scale of the damage.
Manual For Survivalis a remarkable book, distinguished by Kate Brown's rare combination of skills: formidable archival history, investigative research, and vivid storytelling. There are parts of this book that grip with the force of a thriller - but again and again, the plot is proved true. A decade's work has gone into uncovering the real human cost of Chernobyl. This is a book about even bigger subjects than the disaster at its core, however: about how politics processes disaster, about the unseen legacies of the 'friendly atom', and about the Anthropocene futures faced by the human species, surviving in an epoch of ruin.
This deftly written, impassioned, courageous book should make the world think twice about what's at stake when we unleash nuclear reactions.
Kate Brown presents a convincing challenge to the official narrative of the Chernobyl disaster. Deeply reported and elegantly written, "Manual for Survival" is chilling.
Combining the skills of a historian, investigative reporter, and detective Kate Brown has blown the lid off the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and decades of official efforts to suppress its grim truths. Disturbing in its conclusions, destined to incite controversy,Manual for Survivalis first-rate historical sleuthing.
Gripping . . . Kate Brown's relentless, tenacious reporting shows that Chernobyl isn't the past at all. Nothing, she makes clear, can stop its radiation from seeping through all attempts to bury the truth, for a long time to come. This deftly written, impassioned, courageous book should make the world think twice about what's at stake when we unleash nuclear reactions.
This engagingly written book reads like a cold war thriller and uncovers the devastating effects of one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
This thrilling, frightening book tells the truth about the Chernobyl disaster . . .the most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich.
Anastonishingunconventional history.
Brown'spage-turnerskilfully weaves anoriginal narrativeon the long-term medical effects of the Chernobyl disaster...Her capacity to immerse herself and pick up on nuancesbrings these stories from factory workers, technicians, doctors and villagers alive.
Exemplary... Brown is an indomitable researcher
Full of passion. . . [an]admirable uncovering of the hidden storybehind Chernobyl.
Vital work, making a convincing casefor the catastrophic long-term medical and ecological effects of the disaster
A troubling book, passionately written and deeply researched ... the book moves from science to thriller and realm of conspiracy... there is no doubt about Brown's gift for vivid narrative. Her conclusion is chilling.
A humane book about the irreversible things a technological disaster does to people and landscapes.
Amagnificent monographthat stands out among the multiple books on Chernobyl simply because ittells us the truth- the whole unadulterated truth - about one of the worst disasters in history. As such, it may itself be regarded as a survival manual of sorts. And a guide to the future, too.
Help[s] us comprehend, both emotionally and rationally, a disaster so great that future scholars will detect it thousands years from now, whether they have written accounts of it or not.
Kate Brown [...] shows that there are still many ways to tell this story, and that the lessons of Chernobyl remain unresolved ... Brown argues persuasively that [researchers] are grossly underestimating the scale of the damage.
Manual For Survivalis a remarkable book, distinguished by Kate Brown's rare combination of skills: formidable archival history, investigative research, and vivid storytelling. There are parts of this book that grip with the force of a thriller - but again and again, the plot is proved true. A decade's work has gone into uncovering the real human cost of Chernobyl. This is a book about even bigger subjects than the disaster at its core, however: about how politics processes disaster, about the unseen legacies of the 'friendly atom', and about the Anthropocene futures faced by the human species, surviving in an epoch of ruin.
This deftly written, impassioned, courageous book should make the world think twice about what's at stake when we unleash nuclear reactions.
Kate Brown presents a convincing challenge to the official narrative of the Chernobyl disaster. Deeply reported and elegantly written, "Manual for Survival" is chilling.
Combining the skills of a historian, investigative reporter, and detective Kate Brown has blown the lid off the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and decades of official efforts to suppress its grim truths. Disturbing in its conclusions, destined to incite controversy,Manual for Survivalis first-rate historical sleuthing.
Gripping . . . Kate Brown's relentless, tenacious reporting shows that Chernobyl isn't the past at all. Nothing, she makes clear, can stop its radiation from seeping through all attempts to bury the truth, for a long time to come. This deftly written, impassioned, courageous book should make the world think twice about what's at stake when we unleash nuclear reactions.
This engagingly written book reads like a cold war thriller and uncovers the devastating effects of one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.