Mary Mycio is a 2nd generation American-Ukrainian. The disaster at Chernobyl hit her family harder than most because of their links to the region. Ms. Mycio made dozens of trips to the disaster site over a period of several years in her effort to learn both the scale of the disaster and the miraculous recovery of the natural lands around it/5(45). 8 rows · · Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl Joseph Henry Press book: Author: Mary 5/5(4). 6 rows · · Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl: Author: Mary Mycio: Publisher: National 5/5(4).
However, botanical and linguistic facts are more complex, as Mary Mycio explained in Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl (Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, ). In the following passage, Mary Mycio is at Pripyat, a ghost city near the nuclear power station of Chernobyl, with a botanist named Svitlana Bidna and their local. In Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl (October , Joseph Henry Press), journalist Mary Mycio vividly describes an extraordinary—and at times unearthly—new ecosystem that is. SHARE. Description. "Today, 20 years after the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, intrepid journalist Mary Mycio dons dosimeter and camouflage protective gear to explore the world's most infamous radioactive wilderness. As she tours the Zone to report on the disaster's long-term effects on its human, faunal, and floral inhabitants.
Mary Mycio is a 2nd generation American-Ukrainian. The disaster at Chernobyl hit her family harder than most because of their links to the region. Ms. Mycio made dozens of trips to the disaster site over a period of several years in her effort to learn both the scale of the disaster and the miraculous recovery of the natural lands around it. A vivid blend of reportage, popular science, and illuminating encounters that explode the myths of Chernobyl with facts that are at once beautiful and horrible, Wormwood Forest brings a remarkable land - and its people and animals - to life to tell a unique story of science, surprise, and suspense."--BOOK JACKET. Also in This Series. Copies. No Copies Found. A vivid blend of reportage, popular science, and illuminating encounters that explode the myths of Chernobyl with facts that are at once beautiful and horrible, Wormwood Forest brings a remarkable land - and its people and animals - to life to tell a unique story of science, surprise and suspense.
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