Abandoned Places: Where time has stopped
- Publisher: Collins
- ISBN: 9780008333331
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By Richard Happer
Ghost towns, empty streets,
crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places
featured were once populated and now sit unoccupied, modern day ruins, sitting
in decay.
Stories, facts and photographs of 60
beautiful and eerie abandoned places from throughout the world. Time has stopped and nature is taking
resident in these places mainly due to natural disasters, war or economic
reasons.
Places include:
• Severely
damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Six Flags
Jazzland has been abandoned since. Several of the rides still stand, a
testimony to the resilience of New Orleans.
• Shicheng in China has been under water
for 53 years since the Xin'an River Hydro Plant flooded the area. The city was
founded 1,300 years ago.
• Chernobyl was totally abandoned after
the nearby nuclear disaster in 1986. Due to radiation, it has been left
untouched ever since the incident and will be for many thousands of years into
the future. Nature now rules the city in what resembles an apocalyptic movie.
• Poveglia is an island in the Venetian
Lagoon which under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte became a dumping ground for
plague victims and later an asylum for the mentally ill.
• Plymouth was the capital of the island
of Montserrat. The town was overwhelmed by volcanic eruptions starting in 1995
and was abandoned.
• St Kilda a remote Scottish Island may
have been permanently inhabited for at least two millennia, the population
probably never exceeding 180. The entire population was evacuated in 1930.
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