Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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Exploring some of the eeriest, most desolate places in the world, Cal Flyn asks: what happens after humans pick up and leave? I definitely think nothing can top this for my non fiction reads this year, just wish I had gotten to it. This is far from a grand tour of the world’s beauty spots; some of Flyn’s destinations are the most damaged on Earth. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. And that chapter for me was very magical, it was almost like a fairy story the way that these plants change and colour change and grow or shrink if metal's in their bodies and I just love that.

Yet, having acknowledged the devastation humans have wrought, she finds cause for optimism in the most desolate terrain where vegetation has flourished and the animal kingdom has adapted.

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According to the IUCN, more than half of the worst invasive plant species are escapees from botanical gardens, though she is also balanced enough to discuss the arguments put forth in Inheritors of the Earth about invasive species not always causing disruption. 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? 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. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh reads this bold imagining of the life of the medieval nun and poet Marie de France, half-sister of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.I went to an area that had been the front line during the First World War and they had burnt a lot of chemical weapons in a particular, well what is now a clearing in the woods, and the soil has become impregnated with heavy metals. Guardian Australia acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of Country throughout Australia and their connections to land, waters and community.