Name: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (en Inglés)
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Author: Cal Flyn
ISBN: 9780008329808

portada Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

William Collins

Autor

Cal Flyn

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

130 x 197 x 35 (mm)

ISBN13

9780008329808

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (en Inglés)

Cal Flyn (Autor) · William Collins · Tapa Blanda

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Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2021

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2021

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation 2021

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?