La vida en los paisajes posthumanos
This book is a beautiful exploration of places where nature flourishes in our absence. Some of the world's only truly feral cattle roam a long-abandoned island in the far north of Scotland. In the irradiated wastelands of Chernobyl, a variety of wildlife has re-emerged that has not been seen for a long time. In the narrow demilitarized zone of the Korean Peninsula, a lush forest is home to thousands of species extinct or endangered elsewhere. Flyn visits the bleakest and most desolate places on Earth that, due to war, catastrophe, disease, or economic decline, have been abandoned by humans. What he finds on each occasion is an "island" of new life: nature has rushed to fill the void faster and more profoundly than scientists' most optimistic projections. Islands of Abandonment is a tour of these new ecosystems, places of unexpected environmental importance, where the natural world has...read more
