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Cal Flyn - Islands of Abandonment (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Subtitled : Life in The Post-Human Landscape.
Shortlisted for The Ballie Gifford Prize & The Wainwright Prize.
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.
Exploring extraordinary places where humans no longer live - or survive in tiny, precarious numbers - Islands of Abandonment give us a glimpse of what nature gets up to when we’re not there to see it.
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?
Details
- Format : Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good (Obviously Read)
- Category : Non-Fiction - Geography, Earth Sciences & Space
- Published : 2021 (This Edition 2022 - William Collins)
- ISBN : 9780008329808
- SKU : B002992
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
With a few pages of colour photographs.
External Reviews
‘Extraordinary . . . Just when you thought there was nowhere left to explore, along comes an author with a new category of terrain - not scenes where man has never trod, but places where he has been and gone . . . Dazzling’ - Spectator.
‘Exhilarating. A story of the extraordinary resilience of life in some of the most desolate, ravaged and polluted landscapes on earth’ - Daily Telegraph.
‘Fascinating and brain-energising. It is full of detail and colour that sends one googling, to look up pictures and find out more. It is also an optimistic book . . . I’ll cling to that bit of unfashionable hope’ - The Times.
“Scintillating . . . Flyn's research is meticulous, but what makes the book so extraordinary is the originality of her thought” - Dani Garavelli, The Herald.
“Consistently rewarding, eloquently provocative . . . A brave book, in more ways than one” - Mathew Lyons, New Humanist.
“Lyrical . . . A thoughtful, fascinating read” - Martin Chilton, The Independent.
“Bracing, eye-opening, comprehensive, and essential . . . An energizing and important work.” - Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation.
The Author
Cal Flyn writes long form journalism and literary nonfiction. Her latest book, Islands of Abandonment, has been a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction. It was the 2021 winner of The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, the UK and Ireland's most influential prize for young writers.