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Atlas of Improbable Places
A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
Taschenbuch von Travis Elborough
Sprache: Englisch

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Über den Autor

Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author and cultural commentator for more than a decade now. His book include The Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus;The Long Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records; and Wish You Were Here, a survey of the British beside the seaside. Elborough is a regular contributor to the Observer and the Guardian but has written for the Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, the Oldie, TATE etc., BBC History magazine and Kinfolk among others and frequently appears on BBC Radio 4 and Five Live.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
DREAM CREATIONS
FLEVOPOLDER
The region reclaimed from the sea

ZHELEZNOGORSK
Former closed Soviet city

FREE CHRISTIANIA
Squatter-city

AUROVILLE
1960s utopian city

SLAB CITY
The squatter metropolis

PORTMEIRION
The Village

ZVYOZDNY GORODOK
Star City

HEARST CASTLE
Randolph Hearst’s Xanadu-esque home

DESERTED DESTINATIONS
TEUFELSBERG
Abandoned U.S. spy station

PRESIDIO MODELO
Cuba’s most notorious former penitentiary

BATTLESHIP ISLAND
Deserted mining settlement

NO MAN’S LAND FORT
A long shunned coastal bulwark

THE LOST CITY OF SAN JUAN PARANGARICUTIRO
Abandoned after the eruption of 1943

HUMBERSTONE AND SANTA LAURA
Redundant saltpetre works

WONDERLAND
Abandoned Disneyland-style theme park

ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE
Village left abandoned since the Second World War

MUYNAK
Drained port

WITTENOOM
Asbestos-ridden industrial town

ANI, KARS
Ruins of one-time capital of the Armenian Empire

CONCRETE CITY
Garden city of the anthracite region

VAROSHA
Abandoned tourist resort

ARCHITECTURAL ODDITIES
MARYHILL STONEHENGE
Concrete Stonehenge

SPIJKENISSE
The ‘real’ fictional euro bridges

KABAYAN
The Ibaloi mummy caves

SANTURIO MADONNA DELLA CORONA
Chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside

LONDON BRIDGE, LAKE HAVASU
The 1831 London Bridge

THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE MONUMENT
Controversial symbol of independence

TEN COMMANDMENTS MOUNTAIN
The Fields of the Wood

FLOATING WORLDS
THE PALM 105
An artificial island paradise

THE KINGDOM OF REDONDA
Uninhabited Caribbean island

POVEGLIA ISLAND
Former plague quarantine island

GREAT BLASKET
Uninhabited since 1954

HOLLAND ISLAND
Island slowly being eroded by the water

PALMERSTON
A community formed in its founder’s image

WRANGEL ISLAND
A place frozen in time

MOUNT RORAIMA
The Lost World

ROSS ISLAND
British Indian penal settlement

HIRTA
The Edge of the World

OTHERWORLDLY SPACES
AOKIGAHARA
The Demon Forest

COLMA
City of the dead

LEAP CASTLE
The world’s most haunted residence

DARVAZA CRATER
Door to Hell

THE HILL OF CROSSES
Home to some 100,000 crosses

THE ISLAND OF DOLLS
A terrifying attraction

SUBTERRANEAN REALMS
THE UNDERGROUND POSTAL RAILWAY
Rail Mail

COLD WAR SPY TUNNEL
The telephone tapping centre

BEIJING UNDERGROUND
Bunkers to beat the bomb

MOOSE JAW
Illicit tunnels

CINCINNATI
Abandoned subway

ZKP TAGANSKY, AKA BUNKER 42
Cold War communications bunker

PUERTO PRINCESA
Subterranean river
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Produktart: Bildbände
Region: Welt gesamt, Pole
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780711264014
ISBN-10: 0711264015
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 344377
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Elborough, Travis
Hersteller: Quarto
Aurum Press
Abbildungen: b-w photos
Maße: 126 x 196 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Travis Elborough
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,212 kg
preigu-id: 119564004
Über den Autor

Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author and cultural commentator for more than a decade now. His book include The Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus;The Long Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records; and Wish You Were Here, a survey of the British beside the seaside. Elborough is a regular contributor to the Observer and the Guardian but has written for the Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, the Oldie, TATE etc., BBC History magazine and Kinfolk among others and frequently appears on BBC Radio 4 and Five Live.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
DREAM CREATIONS
FLEVOPOLDER
The region reclaimed from the sea

ZHELEZNOGORSK
Former closed Soviet city

FREE CHRISTIANIA
Squatter-city

AUROVILLE
1960s utopian city

SLAB CITY
The squatter metropolis

PORTMEIRION
The Village

ZVYOZDNY GORODOK
Star City

HEARST CASTLE
Randolph Hearst’s Xanadu-esque home

DESERTED DESTINATIONS
TEUFELSBERG
Abandoned U.S. spy station

PRESIDIO MODELO
Cuba’s most notorious former penitentiary

BATTLESHIP ISLAND
Deserted mining settlement

NO MAN’S LAND FORT
A long shunned coastal bulwark

THE LOST CITY OF SAN JUAN PARANGARICUTIRO
Abandoned after the eruption of 1943

HUMBERSTONE AND SANTA LAURA
Redundant saltpetre works

WONDERLAND
Abandoned Disneyland-style theme park

ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE
Village left abandoned since the Second World War

MUYNAK
Drained port

WITTENOOM
Asbestos-ridden industrial town

ANI, KARS
Ruins of one-time capital of the Armenian Empire

CONCRETE CITY
Garden city of the anthracite region

VAROSHA
Abandoned tourist resort

ARCHITECTURAL ODDITIES
MARYHILL STONEHENGE
Concrete Stonehenge

SPIJKENISSE
The ‘real’ fictional euro bridges

KABAYAN
The Ibaloi mummy caves

SANTURIO MADONNA DELLA CORONA
Chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside

LONDON BRIDGE, LAKE HAVASU
The 1831 London Bridge

THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE MONUMENT
Controversial symbol of independence

TEN COMMANDMENTS MOUNTAIN
The Fields of the Wood

FLOATING WORLDS
THE PALM 105
An artificial island paradise

THE KINGDOM OF REDONDA
Uninhabited Caribbean island

POVEGLIA ISLAND
Former plague quarantine island

GREAT BLASKET
Uninhabited since 1954

HOLLAND ISLAND
Island slowly being eroded by the water

PALMERSTON
A community formed in its founder’s image

WRANGEL ISLAND
A place frozen in time

MOUNT RORAIMA
The Lost World

ROSS ISLAND
British Indian penal settlement

HIRTA
The Edge of the World

OTHERWORLDLY SPACES
AOKIGAHARA
The Demon Forest

COLMA
City of the dead

LEAP CASTLE
The world’s most haunted residence

DARVAZA CRATER
Door to Hell

THE HILL OF CROSSES
Home to some 100,000 crosses

THE ISLAND OF DOLLS
A terrifying attraction

SUBTERRANEAN REALMS
THE UNDERGROUND POSTAL RAILWAY
Rail Mail

COLD WAR SPY TUNNEL
The telephone tapping centre

BEIJING UNDERGROUND
Bunkers to beat the bomb

MOOSE JAW
Illicit tunnels

CINCINNATI
Abandoned subway

ZKP TAGANSKY, AKA BUNKER 42
Cold War communications bunker

PUERTO PRINCESA
Subterranean river
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Produktart: Bildbände
Region: Welt gesamt, Pole
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780711264014
ISBN-10: 0711264015
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 344377
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Elborough, Travis
Hersteller: Quarto
Aurum Press
Abbildungen: b-w photos
Maße: 126 x 196 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Travis Elborough
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,212 kg
preigu-id: 119564004
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