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Atlas of Forgotten Places de Travis Elborough

Atlas of Forgotten Places

Autor Travis Elborough
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 dec 2021
London, UK
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780711263307
ISBN-10: 0711263302
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 150
Dimensiuni: 188 x 263 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.93 kg
Editura: White Lion Publishing

Cuprins

Introduction Section 1: Vacant Properties

  1. Büyükada Orphelinat, Turkey
  2. Zarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant, Poland
  3. Pyramiden, Svalbard, Norway
  4. The Castle of Dona Chica, Portugal
  5. Sans-Souci Palace, Haiti
  6. Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse, Denmark
  7. Sammezzano Castle, Italy

Section 2: Unsettled Situatons

  1. Wünsdorf, Germany
  2. Old Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
  3. Mandu, India
  4. Craco, Italy
  5. Grängesberg, Sweden
  6. Plymouth, Montserrat, West Indies
  7. Kolmanskop, Namibia
  8. Kennecott, Alaska
  9. Döllersheim, Austria

Section 3: Dilapidated Destinations

  1. The West Pier, Brighton, UK
  2. Santa Claus, Arizona, US
  3. Ducor Palace Hotel, Liberia
  4. Hachijo Royal Hotel, Japan
  5. Grand Hôtel de la Forêt, Corsica
  6. Camelot Theme Park, Lancashire, UK
  7. The Salton Sea Riviera, California, US
  8. New World Mall, Bangkok, Thailand
  9. Kupari, Croatia
  10. Hellinikon Olympic Complex, Greece

Section 4: Journeys Ended

  1. Nicosia Airport, Cyprus
  2. Train Graveyard, Uyuni, Bolivia
  3. Crystal Palace Subway, London, UK
  4. Suakin, Sudan
  5. City Hall Subway Station, New York, US
  6. Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea

Section 5: Obsolete Institutions

  1. St Peter's Seminary College, Scotland, UK
  2. Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital, New York, US
  3. Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, Italy
  4. Gary City Methodist Church, Indiana, US
  5. Akampene Island, Uganda
  6. Seaside Sanatorium, Connecticut, US
  7. Lennox Castle Hospital, Scotland, UK
  8. Alcatraz Prison, California, US

Selected Bibliography Picture Credits Acknowledgements Index

Notă biografică

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.

Descriere

Abandoned places are mysterious, strange, striking, neglected, hazardous and off-limits. Each sleeping monument offers a snapshot that transports you back in time, invites you to peer into hidden histories, unearth glamorous pasts and reveal dark truths. From a disused New York subway station to a train cemetery in Bolivia, from a crumbling Berlin cinema to a derelict industrial monolith, from a vacant five-star hotel to a Namibian village buried under sand. These 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. Original maps and stunning colour photography accompany Elborough's moving historic and geographic accounts of each site. Trace our lesser known human history through ancient sites and 21st-century ruins, as well as the most contemporary examples of urban decay, like Detroit's lost beloved National Theatre. The book features over forty 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;
  • Peter Ice Cream Factory, NSW, Australia: A booming factory that was expanded to accommodate demand, and even featured a staff swimming pool, now abandoned in favour of a more economically viable building;
  • Aeroplane Graveyard, Bangkok, Thailand: A large open wasteland where decommissioned planes rest, some entirely intact, surrounded be weeds and detritus, and presently occupied by families seeking shelter;
  • Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea: The former top-secret Soviet submarine base that was kept off all official maps and known as Object 825 GTS;
  • Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra, 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;
  • Tsaparang, China: A crumbling citadel in the Himalayas that inspired the myth of Shangri-La.


Also in the Unexpected Atlas series: Atlas of Improbable Places, Atlas of Untamed Places, Atlas of the Unexpected and Atlas of Vanishing Places.