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Islands of abandonment : (Record no. 105597)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780008329808
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ISBN 000832980X
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Personal author Flyn, Cal
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Islands of abandonment :
Subtitle life in the post-human landscape
264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture London :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Willam Collins,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2022
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Physical description 376p
Accompanying material photographs
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note First published 2021
520 ## - ABSTRACT
Abstract 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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?
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Subject term Nature
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Subject term Environment
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Subject term Science
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Subject term Society
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Wessex     South London and Maudsley Trust Library South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves 15/11/2024   ZZ3 FLY SLAM000650 15/11/2024 15/11/2024 Book