
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal Flyn
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN-13
- 9780008329785
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Ecology and rewildingAbandoned landscapesEnvironmental recovery
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2021)
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