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The author Cal Flyn in an abandoned house; her new book investigates such places  Credit: Rebecca Marr We’ve long got a kick out of imagining a world without us. The 8th Century Anglo-Saxon elegy ‘The Ruin’ envisions a city shattered by time and disaster: “Roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins … the years gnawed them from beneath.” The anonymous poet, Seamus Heaney noted, luxuriates in the “claustrophobic and doom-laden atmosphere”. The idea of the end of civilisation has always carried a delicious thrill.  More than twelve hundred years later, the same doomy shiver runs through nature writer and journalist Cal Flyn’s new book, Islands of Abandonment: Life in a Post-Human Landscape. It is a travelogue in which she visits twelve places which, whether through deliberate policy, economic collapse or acts of God, have been stripped of people. Their absence “gives us a glimpse of what nature gets up to when we’re not there to see it”. It is a story of th

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