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Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide
by Darmon Richter
(FUEL Publishing, £24.95)
BRITISH writer and photographer Darmon Richter first discovered Chernobyl on an official bus tour more than a decade after the disaster of 1986.
He became so fascinated with this accidental monument to human hubris that he has returned many times since, taking photographs, researching and writing about this atomic graveyard.
His book Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide weaves together strands of history, science and ecology that intersect at the site of the disaster.
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