![]() ![]() Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist a surveyor a psychologist, the de facto leader and our narrator, a biologist. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape all the members of the second expedition committed suicide the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. ![]() Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Gathered together in this beautiful, oversized special edition is the complete text of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). These books landed on more than thirty Year's Best lists, including Entertainment Weekly's Top 10, and Paramount Pictures recently released a critically acclaimed movie based on the first volume starring Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Natalie Portman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.Īrea X-a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. ![]()
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