Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape, by Cal Flyn
3 reviews
carolined's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Beautifully written and informative. Exploring the less glamourous side of rewilding and coming up hopeful.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Death, and War
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
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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