Detail information:
Name: ABANDONED PLACES
Series: Abandoned
Format: 297 x 227mm hb
Hardcover: 224 pages
Word count: 10,000
Illustrations: 150 photos
ISBN: 9781782743941
Description:
Steam trains half-buried in the desert, roller coasters entangled in trees, hulks of ships perched high and dry miles from water – images like these are bound to make us wonder: what happened here? From forgotten railway stations to flooded shopping malls, from secret Cold War bunkers to radiation zones, Abandoned Places explores more than 100 fascinating lost worlds from all around the globe.
Surveying the ruins of industrial sites and military bases, ghost towns, holiday resorts and airports, the book explains the story of how each place came to be abandoned – whether through natural or chemical disaster, war, economic collapse, or changing tastes and customs. Throughout, though, a picture emerges, not only of what has been lost, but of what remains. Left to the elements but ignored by humanity, these ramshackle settlements and dilapidated structures illuminate times and designs that we thought were long gone. With 150 outstanding color photographs exploring hauntingly beautiful locations, Abandoned Places is a brilliant and moving pictorial examination of worlds we have left behind.
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“From the relics of the Cold War to monuments of industrial decline, this is a captivating pictorial study of man-made landscapes frozen in time.”
Daily Mail Best Books of 2016
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“…photographs of more than 100 once-busy and often elegant buildings gives an eerie idea of how the world might look if humankind disappeared. Here are some evocative, stylised images of nature reclaiming the manmade world”
Guardian, September 2016