Islands of abandonment nature rebounding in the post-human landscape
"As if Annie Dillard walked into THE WORLD WITHOUT US: 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 ma...
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[New York] :
Viking,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. In absentia: The waste land : the Five Sisters, West Lothian, Scotland ; No man's land : the Buffer Zone, Cyprus ; Old fields : Harju, Estonia ; Nuclear Winter : Chernobyl, Ukraine
- Part two. Those who remain: The blight : Detroit, Michigan, United States ; Days of anarchy : Paterson, New Jersy, United States
- Part three. The long shadow: Unnatural selection : Arthur Kill, Staten Island, United States ; Forbidden forest : Zone Rouge, Verdun, France ; Alien invasion : Amani, Tanzania ; The trip to Rose Cottage : Swona, Scotland
- Part four. Endgame: Revelation : Plymouth, Montserrat ; The deluge and the desert : Salton Sea, California, United States.
