Comments on: Book review – Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape/2021/09/08/book-review-islands-of-abandonment-life-in-the-post-human-landscape/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:46:45 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Tears for Crocodilia: Evolution, Ecology, and the Disappearance of One of the World’s Most Ancient Animals | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/09/08/book-review-islands-of-abandonment-life-in-the-post-human-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-51337Sat, 27 Aug 2022 10:38:16 +0000/?p=15313#comment-51337[…] and unwillingness to share the planet. It is too easy to dismiss this as misanthropy. Ever since Islands of Abandonment introduced me to the concept of disanthropy (the yearning for the absence or negation of humans), I […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Incredible Journey of Plants | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/09/08/book-review-islands-of-abandonment-life-in-the-post-human-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-39059Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:12:42 +0000/?p=15313#comment-39059[…] the pioneering plants that colonize volcanic wasteland or that, like an unstoppable tide, move in as soon as humans abandon a place, such as the Chernobyl exclusion zone. We meet the invasive species that have spread around the […]

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]]>By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2021 | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/09/08/book-review-islands-of-abandonment-life-in-the-post-human-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-38333Fri, 31 Dec 2021 08:42:52 +0000/?p=15313#comment-38333[…] Cat Flyn’s debut with HarperCollins is a poetic and spellbinding travelogue to dystopia that is surprisingly rich in ecological and biological detail. Islands of Abandonment explores how nature rushes back in when humans abandon places. It haunted me long after I finished it. Read more… […]

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