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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
8 reviews
a1exander's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: War
Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use
o11y's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Drug abuse and War
imlfox's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Animal death, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic
carolined's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Classism
horizonous's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death and War
Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Gore, and Terminal illness
Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
beholderess's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: War
oceanxbluess's review against another edition
5.0
When I was first made aware of this book, for some reason I immediately thought it would be all doom & gloom, and that if I read it I wouldn’t finish it but I was SO wrong!
Flyn’s writing is entirely captivating, I would even go as far to say mesmerising. In every chapter I felt fully immersed in each of the abandoned areas, it was a super easy, refreshing read. I found myself reading a chapter at a time, travelling across the globe to places I didn’t even know existed.
Throughout the book we visit Scotland, Turkey, Estonia, Ukraine, USA, France, Tanzania & Montserrat, discussing the effects of landfills, war, radioactive waste, agriculture, introductions of non-native/invasive species and other manmade issues impact the nature of an environment once it’s been left to its own devices.
This book is incredibly well-written, you can tell how much time and research went into each and every page. Flyn goes into so much detail about the history of each location, including stories from local people, and also gives her own experience of each place which made the whole book truly magical. She immerses herself completely into every location, giving beautiful descriptions of how nature is reclaiming the land of abandoned places.
Minor: Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War
apersonfromflorida's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Colonisation, War, and Classism