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  • - A photographic exploration of more than 100 worlds we have left behind
    by Kieron Connolly
    £16.49

    With 150 outstanding colour photographs exploring hauntingly beautiful locations, Abandoned Places is a brilliant and moving pictorial examination of worlds we have left behind.

  • by Michael Kerrigan
    £16.49

    From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces uses stunning photographs to tell the stories behind dilapidated structures from all around the world.

  • - Factories, laboratories, mills and mines that the world left behind
    by David Ross
    £16.49

    With 200 outstanding colour photographs and fascinating captions, Abandoned Industrial Places is a brilliant pictorial examination of derelict factories, underground and opencast mines, nuclear power stations and gasworks, atomic test sites, space research centres, Victorian English mill towns, American gold rush settlements and much more.

  • by Michael Kerrigan
    £16.49

    With 150 outstanding colour photographs, World War II Abandoned Places is a brilliant pictorial examination of both the military and non-military legacy of the greatest global conflict.

  • by Dominic Connolly
    £16.49

    There are thousands of ruined castles, abbeys, churches, ancient sites, houses, and mills spread around the island of Ireland, and this book offers you a substantial taste of the most intriguing of these. In Abandoned Ireland, discover Athassel Abbey on the banks of the River Suir and the largest medieval priory in Ireland; marvel at the imposing Carrigogunnell Castle, destroyed during the second siege of Limerick in 1691; explore Carrigglas Manor, a turreted fairytale exterior with a bloody history; and wander the ruins of Rinn Dúin ("fortified headland") overlooking the River Shannon, a key military and trading town fought over by Norman barons and Irish chieftains.

  • by Alastair Horne
    £16.49

    An ancient land with a turbulent past and haunting landscape, Scotland's material culture stretches back to the time of ancient Roman incursions and includes Viking raids, wars with England, and clan wars that still stir the blood today. In Abandoned Scotland, discover the ramshackle sanatorium of Glen O'Dee Hospital; see the rusting, neglected rides and rollercoasters of the Loudoun Castle Theme Park; quake at the site of New Slains Castle, said to be haunted by soldiers and mermaids; and venture underground into the massive labyrinth of Cults Limestone Mine.

  • by David Ross
    £16.49

    Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating pictorial journey through the little-known remnants of rail transport infrastructure from every part of the world, from grand terminus buildings to rusting tracks in the wilderness.

  • by Claudia Martin
    £16.49

    Exploring some of the world's eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europe's last leper colony and South Atlantic whaling stations, along with once grand mansions and colonial settlements and churches, and much more. Arranged geographically, the book is a brilliant pictorial exploration of lost worlds.

  • by Neil (Magazine Editor) Faulkner
    £16.49

    With 180 outstanding colour photographs, Abandoned Places of World War I is a brilliant pictorial examination of the physical legacy of the 'Great War' as it was known.

  • - Discover the hidden secrets of the city in photographs
    by Katie Wignall
    £16.49

    From the disused stations on the Underground to the immense, ornate Victorian sewers and waterworks, from crumbling but beautiful Art Deco cinemas and empty swimming pools to ruined mansions and overgrown cemeteries, Abandoned London celebrates haunting relics from a time gone by.

  • by Michael Kerrigan
    £16.49

    Illustrated with more than 200 colour photographs, Amazing Churches of the World includes more than 100 chapels, basilicas and cathedrals dating from the Middle Ages to the present-day.

  • by Lawrence Joffe
    £16.49

    From Stonehenge built thousands of years ago to inner city churches and synagogues in present-day Detroit and Chicago, from ancient Roman temples to Mayan pyramids in Mexico, and from Hindu temples lost in the jungle to Buddhist shrines in the Chinese desert, this photographic book shows what happens when nature reclaims once-holy ground.

  • - The Mysteries Behind More Than 90 Lost Worlds
    by Kieron Connolly
    £16.49

    Why are towns abandoned? And how do once mighty cities come to be forgotten about? From the pyramids of Egypt to the ruins at Angkor in Cambodia and on to the mysteries of the Easter Island moai statues, Abandoned Civilisations is a brilliant photographic work examining lost worlds.

  • by Chris McNab
    £16.49

    From Pripyat in Ukraine to Bodie in California to English villages requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence during World War II, from Greek leper colonies to deserted Italian mountain villages, Ghost Towns is a fascinating visual history of the mysteries of lost worlds illustrated in 150 striking colour photographs.

  • by Kieron Connolly
    £16.49

    With 150 outstanding colour photographs, Abandoned Castles is a brilliant pictorial examination of castles, forts, keeps, and defensive fortifications from the ancient world to the end of the nineteenth century.

  • by Robert Grenville
    £16.49

    From palaces to prisons, from an 11th century Cha teau in France to The Island of the Dolls in Mexico City, Haunted Places features the world's most fascinating spooky locations.

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