Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape growth and flowering

growth and flowering

some reciprocal arrangement through which both you and your soil get fed

tree folklore

takes us deep into the secretive world of the water vole

kind and companionable book

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape growth and floweringThis is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no mans 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 Americas fourth largest city, entire streets of houses are falling in on