Lost Cities: Beauty in Desolation (Abandoned Places) [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Beecroft, Dr Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786645289 ISBN 13: 9781786645289

Verlag: Flame Tree Publishing, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Ancient civilisations in Vietnam, the lost cities of the Amazon, the cities and towns of humankind have fought for space against the overwhelming power of nature. We think we've mastered it, but discoveries across the world show abandoned cities, their proud buildings now flooded, overtaken by the forests, nature taking back what once was its own, with the slow, relentlessness of time. But there are modern places too, towns built by corrupt local officials that were never occupied, amusement parks closed due to terrible tragedy, settlements sinking ineluctably into the mud, cities destroyed by radiation, these are the remnants of a generation, an entire society wiped from the earth, leaving only dismembered traces of memory., This exotic, powerful new book evokes the eerie, haunted places that retain small touches of humanity: a car with only one wheel, a battered doll, torn shirts on a washing line, a broken ferris wheel, all of them are shattered dreams that dwell now only in the imagination.

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Biografía del autor

Creator of fine and beautiful books, journals and calendars on art, music and lifestyle subjects. Julian Beecroft is a freelance writer and editor specialising in the arts. He has written extensively on the Canadian artists Tom Thomson, Emily Carr and the Group of Seven for Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and the Groninger Museum in Groningen, The Netherlands, as well as for The Guardian, The London Magazine and other publications. Previously, he has written on classical music for Flame Tree Publishing. He is currently writing a book on the art, culture and history of Canada.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Flame Tree Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786645289
• ISBN 13: 9781786645289
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192