Bunker by Bradley Garrett
A kind of apocalyptic Super Size Me (The Guardian) that is both page turning and thoughtful (Financial Times) about prepper communities around the world that are building fortresses against an array of threats. Currently, 3.7 million Americans call themselves preppers. Millions more prep without knowing it. Bradley Garrett, who began writing this book years before the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, argues that prepping is a rational response to global, social, and political systems that are failing to produce credible narratives of continued stability. Left with a sense of foreboding fueled by disease outbreaks, increasing government dysfunctionality, eroding critical infrastructure, nuclear brinksmanship, and an accelerating climate crisis, people all over the world are responding predictably--by hunkering down. Garrett traveled across four continents to meet those who are constructing panic rooms, building underground backyard survival chambers, stockpiling supplies, preparing go bags, hiding inflatable rafts, rigging mobile bugout vehicles, and burrowing deep into the earth. He has returned with a big-thinking, deep-diving, page-turning study of fear, privilege, and apocalypse (Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland) from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings our times into new and sharper focus. With scenes that are fascinating, amusing, crazy, chilling, and surreally topical (Douglas Preston, author of Lost City of the Monkey God), Garrett shows that the bunker is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he reveals, it's in our minds.
Garrett, Bradley: - Bradley Garrett is a cultural geographer and expert on cities, infrastructure, and social issues. His work, which often has him entering lost, forgotten, or off-limits places, has been featured on the History Channel, the UK's BBC and Channel 4, and in The Atlantic and GQ. He also writes a column about public space for Guardian Cities. In addition to Bunker, he is the author of the critically acclaimed Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City as well as three other books on urban exploration, Subterranean London, London Rising, and Global Undergrounds.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781501188565 |
| ISBN 10 | 1501188569 |
| Titel | Bunker |
| Autor | Bradley Garrett |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Simon & Schuster |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2021-08-03 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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