Travis Elborough

Atlas of Forgotten Places (eBook, ePUB)

Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: White Lion Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780711263314
• Artikelnr.: 62905624

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction   Section 1: Vacant Properties 1. Büyükada Orphelinat
Turkey 2. Żarnowiec 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