Abandoned: Ruins, Wrecks, and Moments of a Forgotten Past

WINDOWS INTO A FORGOTTEN PAST

Featuring aircraft graveyards, trains with no passengers, haunted institutions, and tumbledown castles, Abandoned takes us to places that time has left behind.

Wrecked and ruined these vehicles and buildings may be, but their abandonment has, in fact, saved them for us. Not only have they escaped being scrapped or torn down, but, lost or ignored for years or even centuries, they are celebrated today as time capsules, their rusting hulks and battered structures now historical and cultural landmarks.

There is an eerie beauty, too, as the natural world closes in. Tanks and ships resting on the seabed become encrusted in anemones, saplings sprout through cars, jungle slowly envelopes crashed aircraft, while once formidable castles find their battlements dressed in ivy and their stone floors carpeted with moss.

Whether it be Alcatraz or a Nevada gold rush ghost town, ancient Greek forts or French châteaux, the wreck of the Titanic or a London bus marooned in the Australian desert, Abandoned tells, in 320 striking images, the stories of more than 250 places lost in time.

(Previously published separately as Abandoned Places, Haunted Places, Abandoned Castles, and Abandoned Wrecks), ISBN13: 9781782745570 ISBN10: 1782745572 Material Type: hardcover