Reviews tagging 'Animal death'
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape, by Cal Flyn
6 reviews
atamano's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Colonisation
horizonous's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: War and Animal death
Moderate: Drug abuse, Gore, Terminal illness, and Death
Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Child death, Colonisation, and Murder
lanid's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Body horror, Gore, Terminal illness, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Colonisation, and Death
questingnotcoasting's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.0
This was fascinating. It's a travelogue of abandoned places around the world, some of which I'd heard of, like Chernobyl and Varosha in Cyprus, but most of which I hadn't. There were a lot of different reasons each place became abandoned including war, natural disasters, industrial contamination, climate change and human resettlement and it was all so interesting to learn about. There were are few times where the nature descriptions started to go over my head because I couldn't picture the plants or animals Flyn was describing but generally it was an easy read because I was so intrigued. Through exploring all the different places she discusses topics like climate change, rewilding, agriculture, invasive species and nature's resilience. I certainly don't know enough about those subjects to have big opinions of my own like I've seen in some reviews but I feel like I learnt a lot from this and it gave me a lot to think about.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Death
Minor: Terminal illness, Cancer, Addiction, and Alcoholism
beholderess's review
hopeful
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: War
oceanxbluess's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book was not what I expected at all.
When I was first made aware of this book, for some reason I immediately thought it would be all doom & gloom, and that if I read it I wouldn’t finish it but I was SO wrong!
Flyn’s writing is entirely captivating, I would even go as far to say mesmerising. In every chapter I felt fully immersed in each of the abandoned areas, it was a super easy, refreshing read. I found myself reading a chapter at a time, travelling across the globe to places I didn’t even know existed.
Throughout the book we visit Scotland, Turkey, Estonia, Ukraine, USA, France, Tanzania & Montserrat, discussing the effects of landfills, war, radioactive waste, agriculture, introductions of non-native/invasive species and other manmade issues impact the nature of an environment once it’s been left to its own devices.
This book is incredibly well-written, you can tell how much time and research went into each and every page. Flyn goes into so much detail about the history of each location, including stories from local people, and also gives her own experience of each place which made the whole book truly magical. She immerses herself completely into every location, giving beautiful descriptions of how nature is reclaiming the land of abandoned places.
When I was first made aware of this book, for some reason I immediately thought it would be all doom & gloom, and that if I read it I wouldn’t finish it but I was SO wrong!
Flyn’s writing is entirely captivating, I would even go as far to say mesmerising. In every chapter I felt fully immersed in each of the abandoned areas, it was a super easy, refreshing read. I found myself reading a chapter at a time, travelling across the globe to places I didn’t even know existed.
Throughout the book we visit Scotland, Turkey, Estonia, Ukraine, USA, France, Tanzania & Montserrat, discussing the effects of landfills, war, radioactive waste, agriculture, introductions of non-native/invasive species and other manmade issues impact the nature of an environment once it’s been left to its own devices.
This book is incredibly well-written, you can tell how much time and research went into each and every page. Flyn goes into so much detail about the history of each location, including stories from local people, and also gives her own experience of each place which made the whole book truly magical. She immerses herself completely into every location, giving beautiful descriptions of how nature is reclaiming the land of abandoned places.
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War
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