Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape tree folklore

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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape tree folkloreThis 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