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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
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Wydawca: HarperCollins Publishers
Data wydania: 23.12.2021
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
EAN: 9780008329808
Opis
Opis
THE SUNDAY TIMES' SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 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?
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' - SPECTATOR
'A haunting look at how nature fights back … Beautiful, evocative' - SUNDAY TIMES
'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' - KATHLEEN JAMIE, NEW STATESMAN
'Wonderful' - ADAM NICOLSON
'Exhilarating' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
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HarperCollins Publishers
Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8
D01 C9W8 Dublin
enquiries@harpercollins.ie
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 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?
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' - SPECTATOR
'A haunting look at how nature fights back … Beautiful, evocative' - SUNDAY TIMES
'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' - KATHLEEN JAMIE, NEW STATESMAN
'Wonderful' - ADAM NICOLSON
'Exhilarating' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
HarperCollins Publishers
Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8
D01 C9W8 Dublin
enquiries@harpercollins.ie
Szczegóły
Szczegóły
Data wydania: 23.12.2021
Liczba stron: 384
Wymiary: 12.9x19.8
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: HarperCollins Publishers
Autor:
Tytuł:Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
EAN: 9780008329808
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