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Abandoned Islands (Hardcover)
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Abandoned Islands (Hardcover)
Series: Abandoned
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List price R663
Loot Price R558
Discovery Miles 5 580
You Save R105 (16%)
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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 takes us from New York's East River to
islands off Alaska, from a French Napoleonic-era fort off the coast
of Normandy to deserted villages on remote Scottish isles, from
Venetian sanatoria to Croatian penal colonies, Japanese mining
colonies to Sudanese deserted ports and abandoned atolls in the
Indian Ocean. Leafing through these pages, the reasons for
abandonment are revealed: climate change sealing off fresh water or
river channels, shifting economic forces making life too hard,
religious conflict, or wars disrupting daily life - or the absence
of war rendering a military settlement unnecessary. With more than
180 outstanding colour photographs and fascinating captions,
Abandoned Islands is a brilliant pictorial exploration of lost
worlds.
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