Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back - Softcover

O'Connell LCSW, Mark

 
9781783786374: Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Softcover
ISBN 10: 178378637X ISBN 13: 9781783786374
Publisher: Granta Books, 2020

Synopsis

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it. Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O'Connell set out to meet them.

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About the Author

Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine (Granta 2017), which won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017. He lives in Dublin with his family. He writes for the Guardian, Slate, the New York Times and The Millions.

From the Back Cover

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world

In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready.

They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it.

Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O'Connell set out to meet the

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Granta Books
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
178378637X
ISBN 13 
9781783786374
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272

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