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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn (Paperback, 2022)
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On an uninhabited Scottish island, feral cattle live entirely wild. It is full of detail and colour that sends one googling, to look up pictures and find out more. I could go on. and on' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most precious hymn to resilience ... written with a beautiful attention to detail ... Wonderful' ADAM NICOLSON 'Extraordinary ... Just when you thought there was nowhere left to explore, along comes an author with a new category of terrain ... Dazzling' SPECTATOR This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man's lands and fortress islands - and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place. In Chernobyl, following the nuclear disaster, only a handful of people returned to their dangerously irradiated homes. On an uninhabited Scottish island, feral cattle live entirely wild. In Detroit, once America's fourth-largest city, entire streets of houses are falling in on themselves, looters slipping through otherwise silent neighbourhoods. This book explores the extraordinary places where humans no longer live - or survive in tiny, precarious numbers - to give us a possible glimpse of what happens when mankind's impact on nature is forced to stop. From Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean, the forbidden areas of France to the mining regions of Scotland, Flyn brings together some of the most desolate, eerie, ravaged and polluted areas in the world - and shows how, against all odds, they offer our best opportunities for environmental recovery. By turns haunted and hopeful, this luminously written world study is pinned together with profound insight and new ecological discoveries that together map an answer to the big questions: what happens after we're gone, and how far can our damage to nature be undone? 'A redemptive, celebratory pageant of a book, rich in reflection and revelation' GAVIN FRANCIS, author of Island Dreams 'Meticulous research, lyrical writing' LOUISE GRAY, author of The Ethical Carnivore 'Fascinating, poignant, mysterious, surreal, compelling' KEGGIE CAREW, bestselling author of DadlandProduct Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780008329808
eBay Product ID (ePID)17050554946
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
Publication NameIslands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeology
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
AuthorCal Flyn
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight270 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorCal Flyn
TopicNature
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- 02 Feb, 2022
Islands of abandonment.
A wonderful book. Written by someone with an Eye able to see into history, and beautifully make us aware of it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
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- 05 Feb, 2022
A Brilliant book
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