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The Resource Notes from an apocalypse : a personal journey to the end of the world and back, Mark O'Connell

Notes from an apocalypse : a personal journey to the end of the world and back, Mark O'Connell

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"By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, a deeply considered look at the people and places in confrontation with the end of our days. We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny, volatile. Our old post-war alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How are we to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does the world hold for our children? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell ("wryly humorous, cogently insightful"--NPR) is possessed by these questions. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization's collapse. And he bears witness to those places where the future has already arrived--real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he offers us a unique window into our apocalyptic imagination. Part tour, part pilgrimage, Notes from an Apocalypse is an affecting and hopeful meditation on our alarming present tense. With insight, humanity, and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of the world?"--
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
252 pages
Contents
  • Tribulations
  • Preparations
  • Luxury survival
  • Bolt-hole
  • Off-world colony
  • Under the hide
  • The final resting place of the future
  • The redness of the map
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9780385543002
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Notes from an apocalypse : a personal journey to the end of the world and back
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Notes from an apocalypse
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a personal journey to the end of the world and back
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Mark O'Connell
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Notes from an apocalypse
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a personal journey to the end of the world and back
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, a deeply considered look at the people and places in confrontation with the end of our days. We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny, volatile. Our old post-war alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How are we to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does the world hold for our children? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell ("wryly humorous, cogently insightful"--NPR) is possessed by these questions. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization's collapse. And he bears witness to those places where the future has already arrived--real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he offers us a unique window into our apocalyptic imagination. Part tour, part pilgrimage, Notes from an Apocalypse is an affecting and hopeful meditation on our alarming present tense. With insight, humanity, and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of the world?"--
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1979-
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O'Connell, Mark
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613.6/9
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Survivalism
  • Emergency management
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Contents
Tribulations -- Preparations -- Luxury survival -- Bolt-hole -- Off-world colony -- Under the hide -- The final resting place of the future -- The redness of the map
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
252 pages
Isbn
9780385543002
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(hb)
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2019024066
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Notes from an apocalypse : a personal journey to the end of the world and back, Mark O'Connell
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Tribulations -- Preparations -- Luxury survival -- Bolt-hole -- Off-world colony -- Under the hide -- The final resting place of the future -- The redness of the map
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
252 pages
Isbn
9780385543002
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(hb)
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2019024066
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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