{"product_id":"9780008329792_islands-of-abandonment-life-in-the-post-human-landscape","title":"Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTHE \u003cem\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e’ BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE \u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eMore praise for \u003cem\u003eIslands of Abandonment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Extraordinary … Just when you thought there was nowhere left to explore, along comes an author with a new category of terrain … Dazzling’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A haunting look at how nature fights back … Beautiful, evocative’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Flyn’s brave, thorough book sets out to explore places where angels fear to tread … The result is fascinating, eerie and strange … There is some thrilling writing here’ \u003cstrong\u003eKATHLEEN JAMIE, \u003cem\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Wonderful’ \u003cstrong\u003eADAM NICOLSON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Exhilarating’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment is a historical and modern exploration of the 20th century's abandoned habitats and wilderness. It's a Sunday Times bestselling book that delves into the sciences of ecosystems, geography, history, and ecology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Thomas Halliday (Otherlands), Robert Macfarlane (Underland), Robin Wall Kimmerer (Gathering Moss), Andrew Greig (At the Loch of the Green Corrie), and Maggie O'Farrell (I Am, I Am, I Am).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cal Flyn, Read by Cal Flyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889610248341,"sku":"9780008329792","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008329792_e3cc4155-212c-4d7b-8bb1-8c021ea9b77e.jpg?v=1776888191","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008329792_islands-of-abandonment-life-in-the-post-human-landscape","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}