Bunker, Bradley Garrett
Bunker, Bradley Garrett
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Bunker
What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse

Author: Bradley Garrett

Narrator: Adam Sims

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2020


Synopsis

As seen on 60 Minutes, a thought-provoking, chilling, and eerily prescient look at “prepper” communities around the world that are building bunkers against a possible apocalypse.

Currently, 3.7 million Americans call themselves preppers. Millions more prep without knowing it. Bradley Garrett, who began writing this book years before the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, argues that prepping is a rational response to global, social, and political systems that are failing to produce credible narratives of continued stability. Left with a sense of foreboding fueled by disease outbreaks, increasing government dysfunctionality, eroding critical infrastructure, nuclear brinksmanship, and an accelerating climate crisis, people all over the world are responding predictably—by hunkering down.

Garrett traveled across four continents to meet those who are constructing panic rooms, building underground backyard survival chambers, stockpiling supplies, preparing go bags, hiding inflatable rafts, rigging mobile “bugout” vehicles, and burrowing deep into the earth. He has returned with “a big-thinking, deep-diving, page-turning study of fear, privilege, and apocalypse” (Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland) from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings our times into new and sharper focus.

With scenes that are “fascinating, amusing, crazy, chilling, and surreally topical” (Douglas Preston, author of Lost City of the Monkey God), Garrett shows that the bunker is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he reveals, it’s in our minds.

About Bradley Garrett

Bradley Garrett is an American-born cultural geographer who writes about how space is shaped by human curiosity, imagination, and activity. He is the author of five books and more than fifty academic journal articles and book chapters. His research has been featured on media outlets worldwide including the BBC, ABC, and National Geographic and he has written for The Atlantic, the Guardian, and GQ.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on August 04, 2021

Since the Cold War, bunkers had never really disappeared: the subsurface of the earth continues to be a geological-geopolitical space. What’s really different now is that, globally, bunkers are being built by a wide range of government, corporate, and private actors all over the world. Ranging fr......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on July 28, 2021

Hot dang I loved this book. Each chapter finds Garrett exploring a different aspect of end times “prepping”: Communities build out of fields of Cold War bunkers, an underground ultra-luxury “geoscraper” constructed inside an abandoned missile silo featuring million-dollar apartment, government bunke......more

Goodreads review by Nick on July 10, 2024

Bunker is the kind of book, based on title and cover art alone, you don't read in public. Honestly, this book is probably often sold short because its imagery and its subtitle - "What it Takes to Survive the Apocalypse" - will make you think of some conspiracy theorist who probably also bought out e......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on March 25, 2021

Garrett comes across as a rational skeptic, able to discern between reasonable folk and eccentrics. I've always been fascinated with the idea of having a secret passage, an underground house, a private island with an office 20 stories deep, and the prepping industry is designed to sell accessories f......more