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Atlas of Forgotten Places

Journey to Abandoned Destinations Around the Globe
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208 Seiten
Englisch
Quarto Publishing PLCerschienen am02.11.2021
Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art deco New York subway station, a Soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle, a flooded Thai mall teeming with aquatic life - Travis Elborough takes you on a journey into these strange, overlooked and disappearing worlds and immortalises their fates.Original maps and stunning colour photography accompany Travis Elborough´s moving historic and geographic accounts of each site. The featured locations are a stark reminder of what was, and the accounts in this investigative book help to bring their stories back to life, telling us what happened, when and why, and to whom. The book features 40 sites, including: Santa Claus, Arizona, USA: A festive tourist resort turned ghost town deep in the desert where once you could meet Santa Claus any day of the year;Crystal Palace Subway, London, UK: One of the city´s best-kept secrets is an underground, cathedral-like relic from where many Victorian commuters bustled through;Montserrat, West Indies: The small Caribbean island with a population of 5,000 that was evacuated when its volcano erupted in 1995. The volcano is still active and nearly half the island remains a designated exclusion zone;Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea: The former top-secret Soviet submarine base that was kept off all official maps and known as Object 825 GTS;Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, Tuscany, Italy: Once dubbed the place of no return´, this long-closed lunatic asylum once housed 6,000 patients who were never allowed to leave.Also in the Unexpected Atlas series: Atlas of Improbable Places, Atlas of Untamed Places, Atlas of the Unexpected and Atlas of Vanishing Places (WINNER Illustrated Book of the Year - Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020).mehr
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KlappentextExplore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art deco New York subway station, a Soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle, a flooded Thai mall teeming with aquatic life - Travis Elborough takes you on a journey into these strange, overlooked and disappearing worlds and immortalises their fates.Original maps and stunning colour photography accompany Travis Elborough´s moving historic and geographic accounts of each site. The featured locations are a stark reminder of what was, and the accounts in this investigative book help to bring their stories back to life, telling us what happened, when and why, and to whom. The book features 40 sites, including: Santa Claus, Arizona, USA: A festive tourist resort turned ghost town deep in the desert where once you could meet Santa Claus any day of the year;Crystal Palace Subway, London, UK: One of the city´s best-kept secrets is an underground, cathedral-like relic from where many Victorian commuters bustled through;Montserrat, West Indies: The small Caribbean island with a population of 5,000 that was evacuated when its volcano erupted in 1995. The volcano is still active and nearly half the island remains a designated exclusion zone;Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea: The former top-secret Soviet submarine base that was kept off all official maps and known as Object 825 GTS;Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, Tuscany, Italy: Once dubbed the place of no return´, this long-closed lunatic asylum once housed 6,000 patients who were never allowed to leave.Also in the Unexpected Atlas series: Atlas of Improbable Places, Atlas of Untamed Places, Atlas of the Unexpected and Atlas of Vanishing Places (WINNER Illustrated Book of the Year - Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020).
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-7112-6330-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2021
Erscheinungsdatum02.11.2021
Seiten208 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 188 mm, Höhe 263 mm, Dicke 26 mm
Gewicht932 g
Artikel-Nr.57993197
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction  Section 1: Vacant PropertiesBüyükada Orphelinat, TurkeyÅ»arnowiec Nuclear Power Plant, PolandPyramiden, Svalbard, NorwayThe Castle of Dona Chica, PortugalSans-Souci Palace, HaitiRubjerg Knude Lighthouse, DenmarkSammezzano Castle, ItalySection 2: Unsettled SituatonsWünsdorf, GermanyOld Al-Ula, Saudi ArabiaMandu, IndiaCraco, ItalyGrängesberg, SwedenPlymouth, Montserrat, West IndiesKolmanskop, NamibiaKennecott, AlaskaDöllersheim, AustriaSection 3: Dilapidated DestinationsThe West Pier, Brighton, UKSanta Claus, Arizona, USDucor Palace Hotel, LiberiaHachijo Royal Hotel, JapanGrand Hôtel de la Forêt, CorsicaCamelot Theme Park, Lancashire, UKThe Salton Sea Riviera, California, USNew World Mall, Bangkok, ThailandKupari, CroatiaHellinikon Olympic Complex, GreeceSection 4: Journeys EndedNicosia Airport, CyprusTrain Graveyard, Uyuni, BoliviaCrystal Palace Subway, London, UKSuakin, SudanCity Hall Subway Station, New York, USBalaklava Submarine Base, CrimeaSection 5: Obsolete InstitutionsSt Peter´s Seminary College, Scotland, UKRoosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital, New York, USVolterra Psychiatric Hospital, ItalyGary City Methodist Church, Indiana, USAkampene Island, UgandaSeaside Sanatorium, Connecticut, USLennox Castle Hospital, Scotland, UKAlcatraz Prison, California, US  Selected Bibliography Picture Credits Acknowledgements Indexmehr

Autor

Described as 'one of the country's finest pop culture historians', Travis Elborough is an acclaimed author and social commentator who lives in London. His work delves into the ephemera of retro culture as well as the history of London, geography, and a broad range of other subjects. His Atlas of Vanishing Places won the Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards in 2020, and he has also written The Bus We Loved, a passionate love letter to the Routemaster bus which defined London transport for more than 50 years. His other works include A Traveller's Year, A London Year, The Long-Player Goodbye, Being A Writer and A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution. Travis is a regular contributor to Radio 4 and the Guardian, and has penned articles on all aspects of travel and culture, from pirates in the Caribbean to donkeys at the British seaside. He has written for the Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, BBC History Magazine and Kinfolk among others, and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, where he teaches creative writing.