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When a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the atmosphere, one of our worst nightmares came true. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was realized, it became clear how horribly wrong things had gone. Dozens died - two from the explosion and many more from radiation illness during the following months - while scores of additional victims came down with acute radiation sickness. Hundreds of thousands were evacuated from the most contaminated areas. The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs - succinctly dubbed the Zone of Alienation - was grim.

Today, 20 years after the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, intrepid journalist Mary Mycio dons dosimeter and camouflage protective gear to explore the world's most infamous radioactive wilderness. As she tours the Zone to report on the disaster's long-term effects on its human, faunal, and floral inhabitants, she meets pockets of defiant local residents who have remained behind to survive and make a life in the Zone. And she is shocked to discover that the area surrounding Chernobyl has become Europe's largest wildlife sanctuary, a flourishing - at times unearthly - wilderness teeming with large animals and a variety of birds, many of them members of rare and endangered species. Like the forests, fields, and swamps of their unexpectedly inviting habitat, both the people and the animals are all radioactive. Cesium-137 is packed in their muscles and strontium-90 in their bones. But quite astonishingly, they are also thriving.

If fears of the Apocalypse and a lifeless, barren radioactive future have been constant companions of the nuclear age, Chernobyl now shows us a different view of the future. A vivid blend of reportage, popular science, and illuminating encounters that explode the myths of Chernobyl with facts that are at once beautiful and horrible, Wormwood Forest brings a remarkable land - and its people and animals - to life to tell a unique story of science, surprise and suspense.

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29. August 2005
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Mycio takes us on a timely tour of the eerie, surprisingly vigorous area around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that's too radioactive for safe human habitation, yet where, 20 years after the explosion, flora and fauna are "thriving." Among abandoned towns, thousands of cormorants nest, and Przewalskis, a breed of wild horse, live seemingly unharmed on irradiated grass. A few people remain: workers decommissioning the plant, bureaucrats and scientists struggling with chronic underfunding, and samosels, elderly squatters so homesick that Ukraine finally let them stay. Mycio, former Kiev correspondent for the L.A. Times, is a good guide, clearly conveying the niceties of radionuclides; the elaborate, jerry-built structures containing the worst of the radiation; and the impossibility of cleaning the place up. She finds occasional humor and plenty of astonishment, as when a herd of red deer cross her path: "My recorder preserved my inarticulate reaction: 'Super. Wow. My God, they're beautiful!' " Mycio gives plenty of fuel for the discussion of nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuel. Not all readers will share her cautious optimism, yet her verdict, that Chernobyl is not simply a disaster but a terrible paradox, is convincing. B&w photos, map.
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"...a completely unexpected piece of natural history. ...Mycio displays only the best and most consistent journalistic instincts..." -- Providence Journal, September 25, 2005

"...tourists, (are) participating in what may be the strangest vacation... the packaged tour of the Chernobyl exclusion zone..." -- C.J. Chivers, New York Times, June, 2005

"A fascinating look at an isolated area that few will ever visit " -- Library Journal, September 15, 2005

"Mary Mycio takes the reader on a fascinating personal journey through a contaminated landscape that paradoxically thrives with wildlife." -- David Holley, Moscow correspondent, Los Angeles Times

"The new Chernobyl wilderness -- radioactive, yet greenly blooming -- has one of the strangest stories in the modern world." -- Bruce Sterling, author of Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years

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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Joseph Henry Press; First Edition (29. August 2005)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Gebundene Ausgabe ‏ : ‎ 276 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0309094305
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0309094306
Artikelgewicht ‏ : ‎ 517 g
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm

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Mary Mycio was born to Ukrainian parents who immigrated to the United States when she was one year old. She reported on Ukraine for the Los Angeles Times between 1991 and 2003 while also directing a legal aid program for Ukrainian journalists. Since then, she has been splitting her time between international development consulting and writing. Her first book, Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, was published in 2005. Her debut novel about nuclear smuggling, "Doing Бizness: A Nuclear Thriller", is an eBook on Amazon. Her current project is a historical fantasy novel. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, three cats and a horse.

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The author's constant sense of amazement adds a wonderful touch

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Mary Mycio is a 2nd generation American-Ukrainian. The disaster at Chernobyl hit her family harder than most because of their links to the region. Ms. Mycio made dozens of trips to the disaster site over a period of several years in her effort to learn both the scale of the disaster and the miraculous recovery of the natural lands around it.

In addition to a wealth of facts and figures, the book is loaded with personal anecdotes and as a result, Ms. Mycio's constant sense of amazement and underlying anxiety over radiation exposure adds a very human element to what could easily have become a dry academic treatise. Her account of the explosive recovery of the natural environment inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone covers all the most important scientific developments and research on the recovery interspersed with very human tales of the people who work there full time and those who have returned to live in the midst of radiation that is certain to shorten their natural lifespans.

Nature, it turns out, thrives in radioactive zones where long-term exposure is fatal to humans.

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This book is by far the best over view of the situation in the Chernobyl exclusion zone I have read. The author has taken great pains to review and explain the environmental impact in many different parts of the exclusion zone and has interacted with many of the residents as well as scientists who live and work in the zone. The book will give anyone with an open mind the opportunity to learn the truth about the disaster and its lasting effects instead of just the hype pushed by advocates for or against nuclear energy and environmental issues. This book is extensively foot noted so that the interested reader can look up and verify the accuracy and completeness of the information given, but it is also written from a very personal basis, often reading like a travelogue of some daring explorer entering hazardous territory to learn what might be there. Highly recommended for young teen age readers up to the elderly.

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Informative, Entertaining, Well-Written

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This book works on several levels. The initial premise is that the Chenobyl disaster did not create a barren wasteland, as we might have anticipated. Rather, the "Zone of Alienation", from which nearly all humans have been removed, has become a flourishing nature preserve. Working from that point, the author explores the disaster and its consequences from a number of perspectives. There is a discussion of the accident itself, of the initial efforts to deal with it, and then with the long term effects, not only upon the plants and animals of the Zone, but also upon people - who continue to work and even live inside the Zone.

The writing is clear, perhaps due to Ms. Mycio's journalistic background. It is also very engaging, because she is intensely interested in the subject, and shares the reasons for her interest with the reader. For those of us who will never have the opportunity to visit the Zone, this book is really the next best thing.

The author has a website which makes a terrific supplement to the book, with generous photo galleries organized according in parallel to the book: [...]

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Mary Mycio keeps returning to this great irony: Out of the worst man-caused disaster of the 20th century springs a stunning natural ecosystem. Mary knows Chernobyl like few others. She has spent a significant portion of her life studying the accident and its aftermath. She has spent many days tromping through the woods in the Exclusion Zone. Her writing is fluid and never bombastic. A readable, interesting book hands you the chance to understand Chernobyl, and catch a glimpse of the awesome recuperative powers of nature.

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Wormwood: An Excellent Bio-History of Chernobyl

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This book is a great one to read if you're interested in the natural history of Chernobyl. Well-written, very approachable, interesting, sometimes heart-breaking. Highly recommended!!!

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One reading of this will not satisfy you if you are intrigued with Chernobyl and the ...

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One reading of this will not satisfy you if you are intrigued with Chernobyl and the Zone of Alienation. I'm half way through the second time and find myself enjoying it more than the first. I would really love to take a personal tour of the place to see it for myself.

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This book really makes one wonder what our purpose is in this world is. Laws are enforced which protect our children. Its such a shame the laws aren't applied to all species in our environment. I thank the author for her dedication and courage to research and write this book.Please don't read this book.Please learn from it.

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A unique, fascinating, and often entertaining look at ...

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A unique, fascinating, and often entertaining look at the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The author beings a perspective not often heard or even considered in discussion of the topic, and one that is SO very important to it.

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Facinating read!

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Mary Mycio's views and explanations about the Chernobyl nuclear incident are very captivating. She gives good clear explanations about the ecological and biological impacts of the incident on flora, fauna and the humans who now live there.
It is so well written, that any reader, even without any kind of scientific background will be able to understand all the dept of this ecological disaster.
It's an excellent book for anyone who would like to know more about the current state of the fauna over there.

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john duxbury

Love, loath, fear, despise, adore nuclear power, if you have an opinion, you should read this!

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The implied back-story is riveting - what it is really like in the vicinity of "the world's worst Nuclear Disaster". And just how most people over-estimate (by more than could possibly be imagined - orders of magnitude more - the "damage" and the "danger". Old news to science and to chroniclers of 3 Mile Island, et al, but might surprise many, if not most, casual readers.

The telling of the story is a different issue. Should have employed a writer / editor. Sorry Mary, but...

Despite the literary limitations, should be mandatory reading for all anti-nuclear fans, preferably alongside similar pieces on the impacts of coal, oil, wood, solar, wind, wave, et al, as competing / complementary power sources. THEN we might get a bit of balance back into the "conversation" (aka monkeys in one tree hurling insults at the monkeys in the next tree...).

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Michael Dalgleish

Excellent, left me wanting more

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"Wormwood Forest" may well change the way you think about man's destructive impact on the world.
As a book, it reads like the sequel to a book that gives detailed account of the accident itself Such as "Ablaze- the Story of Chernobyl" by Piers Paul Reid.
My only minor frustration was the small number of B/W illustrations. Some higher quality maps and colour photos would have really helped illuminate the vivid descriptive passages in the text. The author does have a good website with suitable pictures which you can easily print out and use as a book-mark though.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this volume; it's thoughtful, insightful and inspiring. Many readers will value the myth-dispelling chapters (there is a lot of nonsense out there about Chernobyl); conclusions from her discoveries leave us feeling optimistic about the natural world's future. For all these reasons, it deserves a very high recommendation indeed.

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Pascal

Good book taking us through several areas

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This was a pretty good book where the author speaks of the disaster and its environmental effects while visiting several areas of the exclusion zone.

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Life goes on!

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A eminently readable layman's introduction to the "Zone of Exclusion". Explains the phenomena of the transport of radioactive materials through the various strata of the biosphere in some detail (a process which is highly complex and unclear; students in biology take note - there is enough to do for a series of PhDs) and does not fall into the trap of equating human tragedy with environmental destruction. Life goes on, evolution and adaption don't stop, even if lifespans are shortened and DNA gets cracked by burst of energy. A fold-out map would have been useful. But then again, one can use Google Maps, which has everything in glorious detail (with tourist's photograph of wild horses, too!)

Infinitely better than "Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy" which is basically a dreary wallowing in pity and modern-age conspirational fingerpointing.

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