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Stalking the Atomic City - Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl (Paperback)
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Stalking the Atomic City - Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl (Paperback)
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Loot Price R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
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The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a
symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost
lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh,
it became a site of pilgrimage. He and dozens like him call
themselves 'stalkers': wild adventurers who sneak past border
patrols to spend days getting lost in this apocalyptic environment
of dense swampland and desolate villages. Kamysh, the son of a
Chornobyl disaster liquidator, takes us with him into this alien
world. In electric prose that captures the spectral beauty of the
Zone and the reckless spirit of the stalkers, Kamysh tells of
hallucinatory journeys alone amid the rusted ruins, of frantic
brushes with police and moments of ecstatic oblivion in the
wasteland. Written with gonzo energy and brash lyricism, Stalking
the Atomic City is a vital, singular document of this dystopian
reality.
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