Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape and anyone searching for a

and anyone searching for a meaningful gift for nature lovers

takes us deep into the secretive world of the water vole

growth and flowering

emotional lives

A book whose sales have not diminished but rather increased dramatically since its publication 45 years ago

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape and anyone searching for aThis 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