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From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus.   The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. 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No book could be more timely' Richard J Evans   Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of  our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war.  And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers  everywhere.  In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and  cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly  growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or  'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the  American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to  armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and  never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way  we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread  that brings it into new, sharp focus.  The bunker,  Garrett shows, is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities,  the vehicles we drive. 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Left with a sense of foreboding arising from accelerating climate change, increasing government dysfunctionality, looming threats to critical infrastructure, and the ramping up of invasive monitoring, people all over the world are doing what they've always done in times of crisis: \u003ci\u003ehunkering down\u003c\/i\u003e. Garrett travels across four continents to meet those who are preparing go-bags, constructing panic rooms, building underground backyard survival chambers, hiding inflatable rafts, rigging mobile bugout vehicles, and burrowing deep into the Earth. 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