Cal Flyn
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
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A book about abandoned places, such as Chernobyl, Detroit, and Scottish islands, explores what happens when nature reclaims its place. It offers insight into environmental recovery and is praised for its insightful writing and ecological discoveries.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 384 pages
\n Publication date: 23 December 2021
\n Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The Sunday Times bestseller and Science and Environment Book of the Year, winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Awards, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prizes, shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Awards, shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prizes, and shortlisted for the Highland Book Prizes, 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 neighborhoods.
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?
More praise for Islands of Abandonment: 'Extraordinary … Just when you thought there was nowhere left to explore, along comes an author with a new category of terrain … Dazzling.' (SPE.)
\n Weight: 366g\n
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 35 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780008329808\n \n
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