| Edition |
First edition. |
| Descript. |
1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Contents |
Tribulations -- Preparations -- Luxury survival -- Bolthole -- Off-world colony -- Under the hide -- The final resting place of the future -- The redness of the map. |
| Note |
(OCoLC)1130325430 |
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1677DF4C-A096-4310-B26E-734FB6E98021 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
| 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?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2020). |
| Subject |
Survivalism.
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Emergency management -- Social aspects.
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Electronic books.
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| Alt Author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780385543019 |
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0385543018 |
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