{"product_id":"bunker-what-it-takes-to-survive-the-apocalypse-9781501188565","title":"Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse","description":"\u003cb\u003eAs seen on \u003ci\u003e60 Minutes, \u003c\/i\u003e a thought-provoking, chilling, and eerily prescient look at \"prepper\" communities around the world that are building bunkers against a possible apocalypse.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCurrently, 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 \u003ci\u003ehunkering down\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGarrett 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 \u003ci\u003eUnderland\u003c\/i\u003e) 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith scenes that are \"fascinating, amusing, crazy, chilling, and surreally topical\" (Douglas Preston, author of \u003ci\u003eLost City of the Monkey God\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBradley 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 \u003ci\u003eBBC\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eABC\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic \u003c\/i\u003eand he has written for\u003ci\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e GQ\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604029247762,"sku":"9781501188565","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_41690db9-9ad9-4855-87b0-509803a03b11.jpg?v=1732252725","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bunker-what-it-takes-to-survive-the-apocalypse-9781501188565","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}