Screen LibraryChernobyl : a stalkers' guide /
Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a vast radiation-tainted zone was ruthlessly evacuated. Yet today it is teeming with life. This unique travelogue introduces the people and places of an uncharted Chernobyl, from ruined Soviet-era factories in Belarus, to secretive 'stalker' subcultur...
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FUEL Design & Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a vast radiation-tainted zone was ruthlessly evacuated. Yet today it is teeming with life. This unique travelogue introduces the people and places of an uncharted Chernobyl, from ruined Soviet-era factories in Belarus, to secretive 'stalker' subcultures in Ukraine -- and finally to the epicentre of the disaster, the irradiated heart of the nuclear power plant itself. |
| Carrier Form: | 247 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 17 x 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781916218420 1916218423 |
| Index Number: | DK508 |
| CLC: |
TL73-095.113 K951.139 |
| Call Number: | K951.139/R535 |
| Contents: | Prologue: the dead city -- Nightmares and premonitions -- Atomgrad -- Wormwood star -- Nuclear tourism -- Journey to the centre of the Zone -- Monumenteering -- Belarus -- The room -- Half-life -- Epilogue: the Chernobyl rave scene. |