Klowey’s Reviews > Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape > Status Update

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Chapter 6: Days of Anarchy: Paterson, New Jersey, United States

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Part Three: The Long Shadow
Chapter 7: Unnatural Selection: Arthur Kill, Staten Island, United States

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Chapter 4: Nuclear Winter: Chernobyl, Ukraine

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Part Two: Those Who Remain
Chapter 5: The Blight: Detroit, Michigan, United States

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Chapter 3: Old Fields: Harju, Estonia

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Chapter 4: Nuclear Winter: Chernobyl, Ukraine

9 hours 6 minutes total

Misspelled Paul (should be) Dobraszczyk.

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Chapter 2: No Man's Land: The Buffer Zone, Cyprus
Includes Famagusta (Gazimağusa Turkish) on Cyprus, modern and ancient citites; Paul Debreczeny, scholar; The City & the City by China Miéville.

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Chapter 3: Old Fields: Harju, Estonia

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Chapter 1: The Waste Land: The Five Sisters, West Lothian, Scotland

Very poetic and "heady." The author is very knowledgable and educated. A bit intense to read, thoughtful, and intelligent. I am having a little trouble understanding some terms, probably because she's Scottish and they might be local terms.

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Chapter 2: No Man's Land: The Buffer Zone, Cyprus

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Invocation: Forth Islands, Scotland

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Part One: In Absentia
Chapter 1: The Waste Land: The Five Sisters, West Lothian, Scotland