I enjoy this kind of travelogue, with reservations. The topic is a serious and fascinating one: the author set out to visit some of the most polluted places in the world, whilst freely admitting that any such choice would be arbitrary. He began in Chernobyl, taking in Canada’s tar sands, America’...
Each individual chapter in this was fairly interesting - I particularly enjoyed the ones on Canadian & US oil towns. However, all together, one after the other: it gets boring. The latter half is also pulled down by the author's attempt to integrate his personal romantic woes into the narrative o...