Six new travel reads for your bookshelf in 2021
We share our pick of the most-anticipated travel reads for 2021. 1. Islands of Abandonment, by Cal Flyn This is a heartening look at nature’s power to reclaim the places where humans no longer linger. Flyn examines ‘life in the post-human landscape’, exploring such headline-grabbing locations as the Chernobyl exclusion zone and the abandoned ‘Motor City’ neighbourhoods of Detroit. There’s also a look at quieter backwaters, like a Scottish island now populated with feral cattle, and myriad places polluted by mining. Haunting? Yes, but also hopeful, showing that, against all odds, ...
Source: nationalgeographic.co.uk