Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape Greece – a remote corner

Greece – a remote corner of Europe filled with stone villages

A book whose sales have not diminished but rather increased dramatically since its publication 45 years ago

A big fold-out has a world map showing the temperate regions where it thrives

some reciprocal arrangement through which both you and your soil get fed

emotional lives

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape Greece – a remote cornerThis is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no mans lands and fortress islands, and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place. In Chernobyl, following the nuclear disaster, only a handful of people returned to their dangerously irradiated homes. On an uninhabited Scottish island, feral cattle live entirely wild. In Detroit, once Americas fourth largest city, entire streets of houses are falling in on