Stalking the Atomic City [electronic resource]
Kamysh Markiyan2022
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'A voice that must be heard' Patti Smith
'Remarkable' Guardian
'Seductive, invigorating' Sunday Times
'An existential travel guide and an experiment in gonzo psychogeography...
mesmerising' Telegraph
An exhilarating, immersive journey into the Exclusion Zone of Chornobyl with the
disaffected adventurers who illegally stalk its ruins, from one of Ukraine's
foremost young writers
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 reckl...
Main title:
Stalking the Atomic City [electronic resource] / Kamysh Markiyan
Author:
Kamysh Markiyan, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pushkin Press, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781782278566
Language:
English
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BRN:
438590
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