Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no manaEURO (TM)s lands and fortress islands aEURO" 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 AmericaaEURO (TM)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 aEURO" or survive in tiny, precarious numbers aEURO" to give us a possible glimpse of what happens when mankindaEURO (TM)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 aEURO" 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 weaEURO (TM)re gone, and how far can our damage to nature be undone?

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aEURO~Extraordinary aEURO| Just when you thought there was nowhere left to explore, along comes an author with a new category of terrain aEURO| DazzlingaEURO (TM) SPECTATOR

aEURO~A haunting look at how nature fights back aEURO| Beautiful, evocativeaEURO (TM) SUNDAY TIMES

aEURO~FlynaEURO (TM)s brave, thorough book sets out to explore places where angels fear to tread aEURO| The result is fascinating, eerie and strange aEURO| There is some thrilling writing hereaEURO (TM) KATHLEEN JAMIE, NEW STATESMAN

aEURO~WonderfulaEURO (TM) ADAM NICOLSON

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Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780008329808
Published: December 2021

Number of pages: 384
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 29 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers