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Visiting Chernobyl
When Chernobyl’s reactor 4 blew up the roof blew away, a million pounds of concrete. Fire filled the sky. The reactor’s graphite core, radioactive and deadly, burned like charcoal for ten days.
Visiting Chernobyl revisits the accident itself, relives the evacuation of the area, and discusses both the physical environs and the political circumstances of the Soviet Union at the time, all framed by the author’s own visit.
Written in the comfortable, easy-going style of Bill Murray’s adventure travel book Common Sense and Whiskey, Visiting Chernobyl is a quick, handy and accessible introduction to the worst nuclear accident in history, useful for those planning a visit and armchair travelers alike.
Visiting Chernobyl revisits the accident itself, relives the evacuation of the area, and discusses both the physical environs and the political circumstances of the Soviet Union at the time, all framed by the author’s own visit.
Written in the comfortable, easy-going style of Bill Murray’s adventure travel book Common Sense and Whiskey, Visiting Chernobyl is a quick, handy and accessible introduction to the worst nuclear accident in history, useful for those planning a visit and armchair travelers alike.
214 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 30, 2013
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About the author
Bill Murray
5 books9 followersAdventure traveler and author Bill Murray has visited over 120 countries and territories in 25 years of off-the-beaten-track travel. He and his wife Mirja live on a farm in the Appalachian mountains of Georgia.
Third book just published: Out in the Cold Travels North: Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada.
Other books: Common Sense and Whiskey, Modest Adventures Far from Home, a collection of fifteen dispatches from some of the world's most off-beat locations, and Visiting Chernobyl, a considered Guide for Travelers.
Two books are now available as audiobooks narrated by the author, and Out in the Cold will be available soon. Here is Common Sense and Whiskey and here is Visiting Chernobyl, a Considered Guide for Travelers . Please note that the author is NOT the actor Bill Murray.
Visit the Common Sense and Whiskey blog and follow @BMurrayWriter on Twitter. See also the web site EarthPhotos.com, with over 15,000 photos from around the world.
Third book just published: Out in the Cold Travels North: Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada.
Other books: Common Sense and Whiskey, Modest Adventures Far from Home, a collection of fifteen dispatches from some of the world's most off-beat locations, and Visiting Chernobyl, a considered Guide for Travelers.
Two books are now available as audiobooks narrated by the author, and Out in the Cold will be available soon. Here is Common Sense and Whiskey and here is Visiting Chernobyl, a Considered Guide for Travelers . Please note that the author is NOT the actor Bill Murray.
Visit the Common Sense and Whiskey blog and follow @BMurrayWriter on Twitter. See also the web site EarthPhotos.com, with over 15,000 photos from around the world.
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April 13, 2016
My book, please indulge my five star rating. In production now on audio version coming soon to Audible(April 2016).
January 22, 2014
A very brief but informative telling of Bill Murray's visit to Chernobyl reactor 4. I would of given this book an extra star had there been a mention of Ghostbusters 3.
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