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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations - Hardcover

De Tocqueville, Aude

 
9780316352024: Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316352020 ISBN 13: 9780316352024
Verlag: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The uniquely designed Atlas of Lost Cities details the destinies of 44 once-thriving urban centers that are now vacant ruins and empty ghost towns.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Aude de Tocqueville, a cultural heritage and history buff, has written numerous works on Paris and French history. Her book History of Adultery won the Grand Prix des Lectrices by Elle.

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Atlas of Lost Cities reveals the fascinating destinies of 44 once-thriving communities and centers of commerce and culture, which exist today as vacant ruins, where only far off memories and ghosts remain.

Like humans, cities are mortal. They are born, they thrive, and they eventually die. In Atlas of Lost Cities, Aude de Tocqueville tells the compelling narrative of the rise and fall of such notable places as Pompeii, Teotihuacán, and Angkor. She also details the less well known places, including Centralia, an abandoned Pennsylvania town consumed by unquenchable underground fire; Nova Citas de Kilamba in Angola, where housing, schools, and stores were built for 500,000 people who never came; and Epecuen, a tourist town in Argentina that was swallowed up by water. Beautiful, original artwork shows the location of the lost cities and depicts how they looked when they thrived.

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Verlag
Black Dog & Leventhal
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0316352020
ISBN 13 
9780316352024
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
144
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Hachette Ireland
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