Description: Abandoned Industrial PlacesFactories, laboratories, mills and mines that the world left behind Author(s): David Ross Format: Hardback Publisher: Amber Books Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Amber Books Ltd ISBN-13: 9781782749844, 978-1782749844 Synopsis The decaying remnants of obselete industries and defunct commerce - whether coal mines, shipyards, factories, shopping centres, power plants, warehouses or mills - lie scattered in desolate locations throughout the world. These left-over structures still hold memories of the life that was once there. Transience was built in from the start. When a mine was worked out, it was abandoned; sometimes its machinery was removed to another mine, but often it was easier to equip the new place with more up-to-date equipment. Abandoned Industrial Places explores the discarded detritus of our modern mechanized age. Discover the grand Ore Dock in Marquette, USA, squatting isolated in the waters of Lake Superior; or the abandoned Caspian Sea oil rigs and drilling gear in Azerbaijan; or the enormous, gaping pit of the 1200m (3900ft) wide Mirny diamond mine in Sakha Republic, Russia; or the 700m (765yd) high wall of latticed steel towers of the Duga radar in Chernobyl, Ukraine; or the Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, New York - formerly the world's largest sugar refinery when built in 1882; or the still contaminated Fisher Body Plant 21 in Detroit, USA, a place where General Motors created some of their great marques for almost a hundred years. Filled with more than 200 memorable photographs from every part of the planet, Abandoned Industrial Places provides a strange and often spooky insight into the life and workings of industries long since ceased.
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Book Title: Abandoned Industrial Places
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Abandoned Industrial Places: Factories, Laboratories, Mills and Mines That the World Left Behind
Language: English
Publisher: Amber Books LTD
Item Height: 303 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 1402 g
Author: David Ross
Item Width: 233 mm
Series: Abandoned
Format: Hardcover
