Lost Cities (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2017-08-17
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Flame Tree Publishing
Medarbetare
Flame Tree Studio
Illustratör/Fotograf
color 150 Illustrations
Illustrationer
150 Illustrations, color
Dimensioner
297 x 279 x 25 mm
Vikt
1662 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781786645289

Lost Cities

Beauty in Desolation

av Dr Julian Beecroft, Flame Tree Studio
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2017-08-17
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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 weve 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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Dr Julian Beecroft, Flame Tree Studio

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Dr Julian Beecroft is a writer specializing in art and cultural history. He has written books on Monet, Renoir, Dal, Kahlo and Art Nouveau. He is also the author of Lost Cities and Secret Cities, as well as a guide to the culture and history of London. He has contributed to the Guardian, the Telegraph, 1843 and The London Magazine.

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