This hardback 2021 edition is in a good, used condition. The priceclipped dustjacket is rubbed along the top edge and it is scuffed on the back cover. There is a small mark on the front blue-cloth board. The binding is firm and the pageblock is clean and bright. There are two section of colour photographs. This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man's lands and fortress islands - and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place. In 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's fourth-largest city, entire streets of houses are falling in on themselves, looters slipping through otherwise silent neighbourhoods. This book explores the extraordinary places where humans no longer live - or survive in tiny, precarious numbers - to give us a possible glimpse of what happens when manki