Journey to Chernobyl: Encounters in a Radioactive Zone

by Glenn Cheney

Overview

Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees, engineers, top-level government officials, doctors, environmentalists, parents of sick children and people living just a few kilometers from the Chernobyl complex. He heard stories about the disaster that went far beyond what had appeared in the Western press. The reports of atrocities, epidemics, tyrannyand dispair blend with a most unsual travelogue, considerable humor and KGB intrigue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897335522
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Glenn Cheney is also the author of more than fifteen works of non-fiction and fiction, including: They Never Knew: The Victims of Nuclear Testing (1996); Nuclear Proliferation: Problems and Possibilities (1998), and Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil (2003). He lives in Connecticut with his wife.
 

Editorial Reviews

"A useful and affecting look at the aftermath of a disaster we are only now beginning to understand." — Kirkus Review

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