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Bunker

Building for the End Times

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Bunker

By: Bradley Garrett
Narrated by: Adam Sims
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Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere.

In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus.

The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds.

©2020 Bradley Garrett (P)2020 Penguin Audio Architecture Future Studies Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
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very interesting I do believe there is going to be more bunkers built the world is panicking with all this covid stuff happening

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A fabulous, interesting listen and really enjoyed it. BG tells a fascinating story and shares very insightful and informative knowledge and experiences. The test, will I listen again? Yup, definitely!!! 😉

I’m prepped

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The author has done a great job-the research and the scope of travel alone is quite mind boggling. The book is very well written. It is very interesting and the narration is beautiful.

What a great look inside the prepped world!

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I was on the side lines as to whether to listen to this, really glad I did.
Memorable because of the metaphors such as transformation and rebirth.
The end chapter on Chenobyl was a bonus.
This book reads like a Dean Koontz novel - and the narrator did this title justice.

Unexpectedly riveting and engaging

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As my title says this is a "memorising insight into a hidden world"
I would recommend this read to those that have an interest in prepping or interest history off bunkers or anyone that may have thought that bunkers were just for the crazy.

Memorising insight into a hidden world

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this is absolutely the best book I've read on this subject. I was getting very frustrated with the endless list style books, with no substance. A great insight, thank you to the author

finally something readable!

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