Andrew Blackwell

Very entertaining. A humorous writer. I would have liked a bit more wrapping up of his thoughts on the entire project, a bringing it home more. Interesting choices of places to tour. Well written.

This book was funny yet informative. I learned how we cannot just look at populated places the way we are used to. There is more to the picture.

Well written and entertaining, the author takes the reader with him to some of the largest wastelands in the world. The first chapter is the focus on Chernobyl. Finding a guide to take him to the center of the disaster, the reader cannot help but be upset by the lack of common sense of the engineers who were to blame for this largest radioactive disaster.

Using a sense of humor, what could be pedantic is rendered as fact in a realistic, but not over dramatic style.

And other adventures in the world's most polluted places