Cal Flyn

Islands of Abandonment

Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape

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Produktbeschreibung

A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ. Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or economic decay, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an "island" of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists. Islands of Abandonment is a tour through these new ecosystems, in all their glory, as sites of unexpected environmental significance, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn't let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, it is a case that hope is far from lost, and it is ultimately a story of redemption: the most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes and, in fact, they already are.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 143mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9781984878212
• ISBN-10: 1984878212
• Artikelnr.: 62666591

Autorenporträt

Cal Flyn is an author, an investigative journalist, and a MacDowell fellow from the Highlands of Scotland. She has worked as a reporter for The Sunday Times and The Telegraph and has contributed to publications including Granta, The Guardian, The Times, The Observer, and others. Her first book, Thicker Than Water, was one of The Times's best books of 2016.

Rezensionen

'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

'Brave, thorough ... The result is fascinating, eerie and strange ... There is some thrilling writing here, a fine way with the telling detail, and a plea for radical revisioning of what we mean by "nature" and "wild"'
Kathleen Jamie, New Statesman

'Consistently rewarding, eloquently provocative ... a brave book, in more ways than one'
New Humanist

'Scintillating ... she writes beautifully ... Flyn's research is meticulous, but what makes the book so extraordinary is the originality of her thought'
The Herald

'A thoughtful, fascinating read'
Independent

'Brilliant ... Flyn paints vivid pictures ... both clear and compelling'
Daily Telegraph, five stars

'Filled with understanding and adventure ... Written with a beautiful attention to detail and a generous and imaginative frame of mind. The wonderful and surprising thing is how much reassurance and sense of possibility comes out of it at every turn'
Adam Nicolson

'Certainly a book of the year for me' Sebastian Faulks

'Cal Flyn takes us on a mercurial expedition into the strange lands of human surrender ... Thoughtful, careful, fascinating, poignant, mysterious, surreal, compelling, pace pitch-perfect. I could go on ... and on'
Keggie Carew, author of Dadland