{"product_id":"9780711263307","title":"Atlas of Forgotten Places : Journey to Abandoned Destinations around the Globe (Unexpected Atlases)","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art deco New York subway station, a Soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle, a flooded Thai mall teeming with aquatic life - Travis Elborough takes you on a journey into these strange, overlooked and disappearing worlds and immortalises their fates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal maps and stunning colour photography accompany Travis Elborough's moving historic and geographic accounts of each site. The featured locations are a stark reminder of what was, and the accounts in this investigative book help to bring their stories back to life, telling us what happened, when and why, and to whom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The book features 40 sites, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSanta Claus, Arizona, USA: A festive tourist resort turned ghost town deep in the desert where once you could meet Santa Claus any day of the year;\n\u003cbr\u003eCrystal Palace Subway, London, UK: One of the city's best-kept secrets is an underground, cathedral-like relic from where many Victorian commuters bustled through;\n\u003cbr\u003eMontserrat, West Indies: The small Caribbean island with a population of 5,000 that was evacuated when its volcano erupted in 1995. The volcano is still active and nearly half the island remains a designated exclusion zone;\n\u003cbr\u003eBalaklava Submarine Base, Crimea: The former top-secret Soviet submarine base that was kept off all official maps and known as Object 825 GTS;\n\u003cbr\u003eVolterra Psychiatric Hospital, Tuscany, Italy: Once dubbed 'the place of no return', this long-closed lunatic asylum once housed 6,000 patients who were never allowed to leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso in the Unexpected Atlas series: Atlas of Improbable Places, Atlas of Untamed Places, Atlas of the Unexpected and Atlas of Vanishing Places (WINNER Illustrated Book of the Year - Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Lion Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52304388653367,"sku":"EB_TR0200_H22-03_KL","price":130.94,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780711263307-1.jpg?v=1788282633","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780711263307","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}