The Discerning Tourist's Guide to the End of the World: Places to visit before you are eaten or vapourised
Book Details
Author(s)Lee Rotherham
PublisherBretwalda Books
ISBN / ASINB01IPY4ERM
ISBN-13978B01IPY4ER7
Sales Rank2,524,701
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A look at the many ways in which the End of the World might come about. Be it catastrophic climate change, meteor impact or a horde of Viking gods going berserk, people have imagined Armageddon in many ways. This book looks at them all, evaluates their likelihood and explains what we can do about them (usually not much).
For some reason, which makes sense in a very human kind of way, the idea of our whole planet being wiped out, all at once, seems very absorbing. Maybe it’s because of the Hollywood film-makers. Or perhaps it’s the gruesome possibility that our last moments could be spent collectively gawping at approaching catastrophe and thinking ‘we really should have done something about that.’ Whatever the reason, the end of everything is a horror story that just keeps on giving.
The so many ways it could happen: plague; super volcanoes; catastrophic climate change… take your pick!
In truth, this book is also a very bold tourist guide. While the attraction of visiting the Apocalypse must surely be regarded as something of an acquired taste, like strong unpasteurised cheese and oysters, there is not more authoritative guide to a holiday at the end of the world than this particular offering. Remember, the information contained in this work is not available in most travel agents.
As such, it is a goldmine of unique insights for those who would like to ‘be prepared’ in the event that the very, very worst appears to be about to happen.
About the Author
Dr Lee Rotherham is an historian, low tax campaigner, front bench political adviser, and army reservist, with a side line in combatting the Four Horsemen (including the economics one). Lee’s military background also usefully allows him authorised access to serious firearms during any alien invasion.
He started to slowly appreciate the merits of penning a book of this nature after using Mount Etna as a sandwich toaster; following a series of jabs that turned out only to protect him from the ‘right kind’ of anthrax; and after reflecting on how his home computer was both much smarter and more temperamental than his ZX81 ever used to be.
Happily for the more diabolic scenarios, his eclectic travels have taken him to sufficient holy items and bits of saints to himself personally qualify as a Class 3 relic.
Lembit Öpik is the grandson of pioneering astronomer, Ernst Öpik and the son of nuclear physicist Dr Uno Öpik. He’s also a former Member of Parliament in the UK and led the political campaign to deal with the dangers which Near Earth Objects present to life on earth.
For some reason, which makes sense in a very human kind of way, the idea of our whole planet being wiped out, all at once, seems very absorbing. Maybe it’s because of the Hollywood film-makers. Or perhaps it’s the gruesome possibility that our last moments could be spent collectively gawping at approaching catastrophe and thinking ‘we really should have done something about that.’ Whatever the reason, the end of everything is a horror story that just keeps on giving.
The so many ways it could happen: plague; super volcanoes; catastrophic climate change… take your pick!
In truth, this book is also a very bold tourist guide. While the attraction of visiting the Apocalypse must surely be regarded as something of an acquired taste, like strong unpasteurised cheese and oysters, there is not more authoritative guide to a holiday at the end of the world than this particular offering. Remember, the information contained in this work is not available in most travel agents.
As such, it is a goldmine of unique insights for those who would like to ‘be prepared’ in the event that the very, very worst appears to be about to happen.
About the Author
Dr Lee Rotherham is an historian, low tax campaigner, front bench political adviser, and army reservist, with a side line in combatting the Four Horsemen (including the economics one). Lee’s military background also usefully allows him authorised access to serious firearms during any alien invasion.
He started to slowly appreciate the merits of penning a book of this nature after using Mount Etna as a sandwich toaster; following a series of jabs that turned out only to protect him from the ‘right kind’ of anthrax; and after reflecting on how his home computer was both much smarter and more temperamental than his ZX81 ever used to be.
Happily for the more diabolic scenarios, his eclectic travels have taken him to sufficient holy items and bits of saints to himself personally qualify as a Class 3 relic.
Lembit Öpik is the grandson of pioneering astronomer, Ernst Öpik and the son of nuclear physicist Dr Uno Öpik. He’s also a former Member of Parliament in the UK and led the political campaign to deal with the dangers which Near Earth Objects present to life on earth.
