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Manual for Survival - A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (Paperback)
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Manual for Survival - A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (Paperback)
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Loot Price R426
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'Remarkable . . . grips with the force of a thriller' Robert
Macfarlane '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 Survival is 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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