{"product_id":"books-annihilation-by-jeff-vandermeer","title":"Annihilation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed \u003ci\u003eSouthern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e tells the thrilling, haunting story of a biologist on an expedition into territory that is both unknown and discomfitingly familiar, as she searches for answers to her husband's tragic disappearance and the puzzle that is Area X.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArea X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the twelfth expedition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers--they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding--but it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480711684369,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374537159.jpg?v=1777551353","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-annihilation-by-jeff-vandermeer","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}