Description
- SKU: 9780711290846
- Made in China
- Author: Travis Elborough
- Binding: Paperback
- Page count: 100–250
- Subtitle: Explore the places that time forgot.
- Product language: English
- EAN: 9780711290846
Explore the places that time forgot. These abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history. 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 them in this book of original maps, accompanied by moving historical and geographical 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 you could once meet Santa Claus any day of the year; Crystal Palace Subway, London, UK: One of the city’s best-kept secrets is an unde
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