Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with ?brave new world,? and wildness with human intervention. Although they are mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. To explore these islands, this book navigates a course along the U.S. east coast, moving...