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Islands of Abandonment, by Cal Flyn

his is a heartening look at nature’s power to reclaim abandoned places. It’s an examination of ‘life in the post-human landscape’, exploring such headlinegrabbing locations as the Chernobyl exclusion zone and the abandoned ‘Motor City’ neighbourhoods of Detroit. There’s also a

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