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    "description": "This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man\u2019s lands and fortress islands \u2013 and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place.\n\nIn 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 America\u2019s fourth-largest city, entire streets of houses are falling in on themselves, looters slipping through otherwise silent neighbourhoods.\n\nThis book explores the extraordinary places where humans no longer live \u2013 or survive in tiny, precarious numbers \u2013 to give us a possible glimpse of what happens when mankind\u2019s impact on nature is forced to stop. From Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean, the forbidden areas of France to the mining regions of Scotland, Flyn brings together some of the most desolate, eerie, ravaged and polluted areas in the world \u2013 and shows how, against all odds, they offer our best opportunities for environmental recovery.\n\nBy turns haunted and hopeful, this luminously written world study is pinned together with profound insight and new ecological discoveries that together map an answer to the big questions: what happens after we\u2019re gone, and how far can our damage to nature be undone?",
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