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Smith Oliver - The Atlas Of Abandoned Places A Journey Through The World's Forgotten Wonders - Hardcover
Smith Oliver - The Atlas Of Abandoned Places A Journey Through The World's Forgotten Wonders - Hardcover
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Description: A remarkable collection of wonders. Lavishly produced cleverly curated and elegantly scripted it takes us to some of the strangest places on Earth and offers us a peep through the keyhole. The Spectator The globe is littered with forgotten monuments their beauty matched only by the secrets of their past. A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen dictator. A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a mountain. Two never - launched space shuttles slowly crumble left to rot in the middle of the desert. Explore these and many more of the world's lost wonders in this atlas like no other. With remarkable stories bespoke maps and stunning photography of fifty forsaken sites The Atlas of Abandoned Places travels the world beneath the surface; the sites with stories to tell the ones you won't find in any guidebook. Award - winning travel writer Oliver Smith is your guide on a long - lost path shining a light on the places that the world forgot. Locations featured in the book include: Europe: Maunsell Forts Aldwych Station Paris Catacombs La Petite Ceinture Craco Teufelsberg Beelitz - Heilst tten Red Star Train Graveyard Pyramiden Salpa Line Buzludzha Monument Pripyat Wolf's Lair Project Riese Sarajevo Bobsleigh Track Albanian Bunkers Rummu Quarry The Americas & the Carribean: New Bedford Orpheum Theatre City Hall Station Bodie The Boneyards of Western US a Bannerman Castle Palace of Sans Souci Montserrat Exclusion Zone Ciudad Perdida Humberstone and Santa Laura Uyuni Train Cemetery Fordl ndia The Middle East & the Caucasus: Kayak y Burj Al Babas Varosha Tskaltubo Palaces of Saddam Asia: Ryugyong Hotel Buran at Baikonur Mo'ynoq Ship Graveyard Aniva Lighthouse H Thuy Ti n Waterpark Fukushima Red Zone Hashima Oceania: Wittenoom Wrecks of Homebush Bay Port Arthur MS World Discoverer Second World Remains of Papua New Guinea Africa: Shipwrecks of the Skeleton Coast Kolmanskop Mobutu's Gbadolite Mos Espas o Martinho dos Tigres
Title: The Atlas Of Abandoned Places A Journey Through The World's Forgotten Wonders
Author(s): Smith Oliver
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781784726928
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Category: Travel Maps & Atlases
Description: A remarkable collection of wonders. Lavishly produced cleverly curated and elegantly scripted it takes us to some of the strangest places on Earth and offers us a peep through the keyhole. The Spectator The globe is littered with forgotten monuments their beauty matched only by the secrets of their past. A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen dictator. A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a mountain. Two never - launched space shuttles slowly crumble left to rot in the middle of the desert. Explore these and many more of the world's lost wonders in this atlas like no other. With remarkable stories bespoke maps and stunning photography of fifty forsaken sites The Atlas of Abandoned Places travels the world beneath the surface; the sites with stories to tell the ones you won't find in any guidebook. Award - winning travel writer Oliver Smith is your guide on a long - lost path shining a light on the places that the world forgot. Locations featured in the book include: Europe: Maunsell Forts Aldwych Station Paris Catacombs La Petite Ceinture Craco Teufelsberg Beelitz - Heilst tten Red Star Train Graveyard Pyramiden Salpa Line Buzludzha Monument Pripyat Wolf's Lair Project Riese Sarajevo Bobsleigh Track Albanian Bunkers Rummu Quarry The Americas & the Carribean: New Bedford Orpheum Theatre City Hall Station Bodie The Boneyards of Western US a Bannerman Castle Palace of Sans Souci Montserrat Exclusion Zone Ciudad Perdida Humberstone and Santa Laura Uyuni Train Cemetery Fordl ndia The Middle East & the Caucasus: Kayak y Burj Al Babas Varosha Tskaltubo Palaces of Saddam Asia: Ryugyong Hotel Buran at Baikonur Mo'ynoq Ship Graveyard Aniva Lighthouse H Thuy Ti n Waterpark Fukushima Red Zone Hashima Oceania: Wittenoom Wrecks of Homebush Bay Port Arthur MS World Discoverer Second World Remains of Papua New Guinea Africa: Shipwrecks of the Skeleton Coast Kolmanskop Mobutu's Gbadolite Mos Espas o Martinho dos Tigres
Title: The Atlas Of Abandoned Places A Journey Through The World's Forgotten Wonders
Author(s): Smith Oliver
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781784726928
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Category: Travel Maps & Atlases
