Abandoned Palaces

Kerrigan, Michael
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781838865221
Publisert
2025-05-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Amber Books
Vekt
1050 gr
Høyde
276 mm
Bredde
212 mm
Dybde
22 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
00, G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Kerrigan, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Kerrigan was educated at St. Edward’s College and University College, Oxford, England. He is the author of History of the World, Abandoned Places of World War II, The Cold War and Amazing Churches of the World. He is a columnist, book reviewer, and feature writer for publications including the Scotsman and the Times Literary Supplement. Michael Kerrigan lives with his family in Edinburgh.

Abandoned Palaces

Kerrigan, Michael
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Kerrigan, Michael
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Nettpris:
406,-
Kommer i salg 14.06.2025
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Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur – it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces tells the stories behind dilapidated structures from all around the world. From ancient Roman villas to the French colonial hill station in Cambodia that was one of the final refuges of the Khmer Rouge, the book charts the fascinating decline of what were once the homes and holiday resorts of the most wealthy. Ranging from crumbling hotels in the Catskill Mountains or in Mozambique to grand mansions in Taiwan, and from an unfinished Elizabethan summerhouse to a modern megalomaniac’s estate too expensive ever to be completed, the reasons for the abandonment of these buildings include politics, bankruptcy, personal tragedies, natural and man-made disasters, as well as changing tastes and fashions. With 150 outstanding colour photographs exploring more than 100 hauntingly beautiful locations, Abandoned Palaces is a brilliant and moving pictorial examination of worlds we have left behind.
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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.
Introduction THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN Sosneado Hot Springs Hotel, Mendoza, Argentina Hotel del Salto, Santandercito, Colombia Halcyon Hall, Bennett College, New York, USA Igloo City, Alaska, USA Bannerman Castle, New York State, USA Boldt Castle, Heart Island, Alexandria Bay, New York, United States Hotel del Salto, San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia Sans-Souci Palace, Haiti WESTERN EUROPE Ebenfurth Castle, Wiener-Neustadt-Land, Austria Chapel, Ladendorf Castle, Mistelbach, Austria Château Miranda, Celles, Namur, Belgium Château Lumière, Sainte-Croixeau-Mines, Haut-Rhin, France Prora, Rügen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany Sammezzano Castle, Leccio, Tuscany, Italy Dona Chica’s Castle, Palmeira, Braga, Portugal Castle Saunderson, Belturbet, Cavan, Ireland Seacliff House, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, London EASTERN EUROPE Ruzhany Palace, Pruzhany District, Belarus Memorial House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria Prince Smetsky’s Palace, Gulripshi, Abkhazia Sumskas Manor, Sumskas, Vilnius, Lithuania Bozkow Palace, Klodzko County, Lower Silesia, Poland Sobanski Palace, Guzów, Mazovia, Poland Fabergé Farmstead, Levashovo, St Petersburg, Russia Vlakjkovac Castle, Vrsac, Vojvodina, Serbia Pidhirtsi Palace, Pidhirtsi, Lviv, Ukraine AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Berengo Palace, Bobangui, Central African Republic Presidential Palace, Gbadolite, Democratic Republic of the Congo Baron Empain’s Palace, Cairo, Egypt Saddam Hussein’s Palace, Hilla, Babil Governorate, Iraq Bechara el-Khoury Palace, Zuqaq al-blat, Beirut, Lebanon Ducor Hotel, Monrovia, Liberia Grande Hotel Beira, Beira, Sofala, Mozambique ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Darul Aman Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan Bokor Palace Hotel, Bokor, Kampot, Cambodia Baz Bahadur’s Palace, Mandav, Mandhya Pradesh, India Bundi Palace, Hadoti, Rajasthan, India Jahangir Mahal, Orchha, Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India Ranighat Palace, Palpa, Province No. 5, Nepal Tamluk Rajbari, Tamluk, Purba, Medinipur, West Bengal, India Derelict Hotel, Hachijojima, Izu Islands, Japan Kellie’s Castle, Batu Gajah, Kinta, Perak, Malaysia King Narai’s Palace, Lopburi, Thailand
Les mer
Stunning photographs of grand buildings left to rot...

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Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur – it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces tells the stories behind dilapidated structures from all around the world. From ancient Roman villas to the French colonial hill station in Cambodia that was one of the final refuges of the Khmer Rouge, the book charts the fascinating decline of what were once the homes and holiday resorts of the most wealthy. Ranging from crumbling hotels in the Catskill Mountains or in Mozambique to grand mansions in Taiwan, and from an unfinished Elizabethan summerhouse to a modern megalomaniac’s estate too expensive ever to be completed, the reasons for the abandonment of these buildings include politics, bankruptcy, personal tragedies, natural and man-made disasters, as well as changing tastes and fashions. With 150 outstanding colour photographs exploring more than 100 hauntingly beautiful locations, Abandoned Palaces is a brilliant and moving pictorial examination of worlds we have left behind.
Les mer
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.
Introduction THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN Sosneado Hot Springs Hotel, Mendoza, Argentina Hotel del Salto, Santandercito, Colombia Halcyon Hall, Bennett College, New York, USA Igloo City, Alaska, USA Bannerman Castle, New York State, USA Boldt Castle, Heart Island, Alexandria Bay, New York, United States Hotel del Salto, San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia Sans-Souci Palace, Haiti WESTERN EUROPE Ebenfurth Castle, Wiener-Neustadt-Land, Austria Chapel, Ladendorf Castle, Mistelbach, Austria Château Miranda, Celles, Namur, Belgium Château Lumière, Sainte-Croixeau-Mines, Haut-Rhin, France Prora, Rügen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany Sammezzano Castle, Leccio, Tuscany, Italy Dona Chica’s Castle, Palmeira, Braga, Portugal Castle Saunderson, Belturbet, Cavan, Ireland Seacliff House, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, London EASTERN EUROPE Ruzhany Palace, Pruzhany District, Belarus Memorial House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria Prince Smetsky’s Palace, Gulripshi, Abkhazia Sumskas Manor, Sumskas, Vilnius, Lithuania Bozkow Palace, Klodzko County, Lower Silesia, Poland Sobanski Palace, Guzów, Mazovia, Poland Fabergé Farmstead, Levashovo, St Petersburg, Russia Vlakjkovac Castle, Vrsac, Vojvodina, Serbia Pidhirtsi Palace, Pidhirtsi, Lviv, Ukraine AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Berengo Palace, Bobangui, Central African Republic Presidential Palace, Gbadolite, Democratic Republic of the Congo Baron Empain’s Palace, Cairo, Egypt Saddam Hussein’s Palace, Hilla, Babil Governorate, Iraq Bechara el-Khoury Palace, Zuqaq al-blat, Beirut, Lebanon Ducor Hotel, Monrovia, Liberia Grande Hotel Beira, Beira, Sofala, Mozambique ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Darul Aman Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan Bokor Palace Hotel, Bokor, Kampot, Cambodia Baz Bahadur’s Palace, Mandav, Mandhya Pradesh, India Bundi Palace, Hadoti, Rajasthan, India Jahangir Mahal, Orchha, Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India Ranighat Palace, Palpa, Province No. 5, Nepal Tamluk Rajbari, Tamluk, Purba, Medinipur, West Bengal, India Derelict Hotel, Hachijojima, Izu Islands, Japan Kellie’s Castle, Batu Gajah, Kinta, Perak, Malaysia King Narai’s Palace, Lopburi, Thailand
Les mer
Stunning photographs of grand buildings left to rot...

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781838865221
Publisert
2025-05-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Amber Books
Vekt
1050 gr
Høyde
276 mm
Bredde
212 mm
Dybde
22 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
00, G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Kerrigan, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Kerrigan was educated at St. Edward’s College and University College, Oxford, England. He is the author of History of the World, Abandoned Places of World War II, The Cold War and Amazing Churches of the World. He is a columnist, book reviewer, and feature writer for publications including the Scotsman and the Times Literary Supplement. Michael Kerrigan lives with his family in Edinburgh.

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