
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal Flyn
#2088 of 3,809 books · #221 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2021).
Islands of Abandonment won the Sunday Times Book of the Year Award for Science and Environment, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-13
- 9780008329785
- Genre
- Topics
- Ecology and rewildingAbandoned landscapesEnvironmental recovery
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2021)
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