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Notes from an apocalypse : a personal journey to the end of the world and back

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?"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 038554300X
  • ISBN: 9780385543002
  • Physical Description: 252 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2020]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note: Tribulations -- Preparations -- Luxury survival -- Bolthole -- Off-world colony -- Under the hide -- The final resting place of the future -- The redness of the map.
Subject: Emergency management Social aspects
Survivalism

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  • 11 of 11 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Haywood County Library.

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Haywood County Main Library 613.69 O'Connell (Text) 33115007679904 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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