The Atlas of Abandoned Places

Informationen zum Autor Oliver Smith has spent years travelling the faraway corners of the world. A four-time Travel Writer of the Year award winner, he has appeared in Lonely Planet , National Geographic , the BBC, The Sunday Times , Outside magazine and many more. Klappentext "Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past to decaying reminders of more troubled times. 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"-- Vorwort Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past to decaying reminders of more troubled times. Zusammenfassung Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past to decaying reminders of more troubled times.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Smith, Smith Oliver
• Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781784726928
• ISBN: 978-1-78472-692-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 196 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Maps, city plans, atlases > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Photography & photographs, Geography, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, Travel maps & atlases, World atlases / world maps, Historical maps & atlases, Photography and photographs, Historical Geography, Places in old photographs