{"product_id":"2026200007087-secondhand-journey-to-nowhere-a-new-world-tragedy","title":"Journey To Nowhere: A New World Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels visible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gripping work of narrative non-fiction, Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy chronicles Shiva Naipaul's harrowing investigation into the Jonestown massacre of 1978, in which over nine hundred members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple cult perished in the jungles of Guyana. With the sharp, unflinching prose of a seasoned journalist, Naipaul reconstructs the social and ideological forces that drew desperate, idealistic Americans into one of history's most catastrophic utopian experiments. The book dissects the intersection of race, religion, politics, and disillusionment in 1970s America, arguing that Jonestown was not an aberration but a dark symptom of a nation searching for meaning. Written with both intellectual rigour and visceral urgency, it stands as one of the most penetrating accounts of mass delusion and the fatal seduction of charismatic power ever committed to print.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48888029053147,"sku":"2026200007087-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e4e16faf-db8c-4e8e-b852-a8629a45e00b.png?v=1781753261","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200007087-secondhand-journey-to-nowhere-a-new-world-tragedy","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}