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Islands of Abandonment
- Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
- Narrado por: Cal Flyn
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A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence
"[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity's destructive impulse, and she arrives at a new appreciation of life, 'all the stranger and more valuable for its resilence." (The New Yorker)
Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ.
Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or economic decay, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an "island" of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists.
Islands of Abandonment is a tour through these new ecosystems, in all their glory, as sites of unexpected environmental significance, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn't let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, it is a case that hope is far from lost, and it is ultimately a story of redemption: the most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes and, in fact, they already are.
Reseñas de la Crítica
Finalist for the Wainwright Prize
A Vulture "Book of the Summer"
One of Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2021
“[A] riveting collection of essays.... Through lush and poetic language, [Flyn] captures the vital forces at work in the natural world. This is nature writing at its most potent.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
“Bracing, eye-opening, comprehensive, and essential, Islands of Abandonment is an energizing and important work. It affirms that nature is resilient, given half a chance, and should motivate all of us to try harder, even for the habitats that seem broken or hopeless.” (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times best-selling author of Annihilation and the Southern Reach trilogy)
"Filled with understanding and adventure, Islands of Abandonment is written with a beautiful attention to detail and a generous and imaginative frame of mind. The wonderful and surprising thing is how much reassurance and sense of possibility comes out of it at every turn. In that way, it is the most precious hymn to resilience." (Adam Nicolson, author of Sea Room)
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- And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
- De: Douglas Preston, David Grann - foreword
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.
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- De Jason en 12-07-23
De: Douglas Preston, y otros
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Never Enough
- A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning
- De: Mike Hayes
- Narrado por: Mike Hayes
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. He’s jumped out of a building rigged to explode, helped amputate a teammate’s leg, and made countless split-second life-and-death decisions. He’s written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in case those were the last words of his they’d ever read. Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.
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Team, Teammate, then Self
- De Christopher Brown en 02-12-21
De: Mike Hayes
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Cary Grant
- A Brilliant Disguise
- De: Scott Eyman
- Narrado por: Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Film historian and acclaimed New York Times best-selling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, “captivating” (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished — and beloved — actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today.
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Disappointing...
- De Amazon Customer en 11-02-20
De: Scott Eyman
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups
- Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
- De: Dr. Carl L. Hart
- Narrado por: Dr. Carl L. Hart
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use - not drugs themselves - have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country's enduring structural racism. Dr. Hart did not always have this view. He came of age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that drug use caused bad outcomes.
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Dr Carl Hart should be our drug Czar
- De Steven Todd Gordon en 01-19-21
De: Dr. Carl L. Hart
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Sounds Wild and Broken
- Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
- De: David George Haskell
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen, David George Haskell
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales.
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A poet-philosopher-scientist-sage for the ages!
- De S. Kalita en 03-27-22
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Heaven and Hell
- A History of the Afterlife
- De: Bart D. Ehrman
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd, Bart D. Ehrman - preface
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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In this “eloquent understanding of how death is viewed through many spiritual traditions” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Bart Ehrman recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. He discusses ancient guided tours of heaven and hell, in which a living person observes the sublime blessings of heaven for those who are saved and the horrifying torments of hell for those who are damned.
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It may not be what you expect
- De Library Bob en 05-25-20
De: Bart D. Ehrman
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The Lost Tomb
- And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
- De: Douglas Preston, David Grann - foreword
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.
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- De Jason en 12-07-23
De: Douglas Preston, y otros
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The Underworld
- Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
- De: Susan Casey
- Narrado por: Susan Casey
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet, interviewing the marine geologists, marine biologists, and oceanographers who are searching for knowledge in this vast unseen realm. She takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of deep-sea exploration, from the myths and legends of the ancient world to storied shipwrecks we can now reach on the bottom.
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This could change everything
- De Gael Dalton en 01-16-24
De: Susan Casey
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Underland
- A Deep Time Journey
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
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Wonderful book, disappointing narrator
- De Clare Woods en 07-05-19
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Written in Bone
- Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
- De: Sue Black
- Narrado por: Sue Black
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on the basics of identifying human remains, plenty of insights into the fascinating processes of death, and a sober, compassionate understanding of its inescapable presence in our existence. Now in this book, Black builds on that memoir, taking us on a guided tour of the human skeleton and explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones.
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A very human story by a very believable human
- De Gary en 09-21-21
De: Sue Black
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- De Christopher en 01-19-17
De: Charles C. Mann
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The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- De: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known. In The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to.
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Tree Hugger
- De Darwin8u en 04-18-19
De: Peter Wohlleben
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The Light Eaters
- How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
- De: Zoë Schlanger
- Narrado por: Zoë Schlanger
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system.
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Mind-blowing
- De Roger Henderson en 05-22-24
De: Zoë Schlanger
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Islands of Abandonment
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- Jimmyjoejangles
- 03-15-22
Stunningly Breathtaking!
If there is a thing as ruin porn, this is ruin love letters! Thanks so much! Just finished and going straight back for another round and bought a hard copy! Really well written can't wait for more from this author!
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- Gwyn
- 03-02-22
Amazing Review of destruction finding some hope
I hope Miss Flyn's other writings are as descriptive. I cannot go to these places, yet feel as though I have. At times, I wanted to weep for the scars we cause, but yet revel in the amazing resilience of this beautiful planet that hosts us. Thank you, Miss Flyn, I will definitely be looking into your other works.
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- Cynthia S.
- 02-27-23
Amazing
One of the best books I have read. So descriptive…close your eyes and you are transported to each site. I have been fortunate enough to have visited many of these locations. Outstanding work.
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- Robert G Ives Jr
- 05-13-24
Personal Up Close Research
The author conducted her own personal and up close research in some remote and dangerous locations around the world. She documented flora and fauna regeneration in a variety of unlikely locations that are damaged because of war, natural destruction or just plain human disregard for the planet. I listened to the audiobook and she does an excellent reading both enlightening and enjoyable.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-19-21
Beautifully Written Story
Flynn is knowledgeable about her subjects. She is well educated and travels deeply further researching what she writes about. The writing is lyrical as well as factual. I learned a lot from listening to this book. I may listen to it again someday. I found mispronunciations of Greek names distracting. It’s not that difficult to get the accent correct in Greek names! Overall though, it was a really good journey of science, poetry and art.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-27-23
Thought provoking
A serious review of the resilience of life and a thought provoking discussion of both natural and human caused destructive events and their magnitudes of disruption to life on earth.
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- Mattia
- 09-02-21
Stunningly necessary
Flyn writes with such descriptive and poetic prose. Each place visited and explored comes alive, as though raised from the dead of obscurity.
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- MCV
- 04-28-22
pretentious
I honestly had to quit halfway through. I couldn't stand the narrator's voice any longer. the overly flowery language and her condescending tone makes it hard not to dismisse such an important subject. I will continue the book, but with the kindle version. it will be easier to look past the needlessly dramatic prose and take in the information.
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