Customer Reviews

Excellent, left me wanting more - By: Michael Dalgleish, 01 Sep 2007
"Wormwood Forest" may well change the way you think about man's destructive impact on the world.
As a book, it reads like the sequel to a book that gives detailed account of the accident itself Such as "Ablaze- the Story of Chernobyl" by Piers Paul Reid.
My only minor frustration was the small number of B/W illustrations. Some higher quality maps & colour photos would have really helped illuminate the vivid descriptive passagesin the text. The author does have a good website with suitable pictures which you can easily print out & use as a book-mark though.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this volume; it's thoughtful, insightful & inspiring. Many readers will value the myth-dispelling chapters (there is a lot of nonsense out there about Chernobyl); conclusions from her discoveries leave us feeling optimistic about the natural world's future. For all these reasons, it deserves a very high recommendation indeed.