Travis Elborough, winner of the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Illustrated Book of the Year, is back with another book in the Unexpected Atlas series.
Atlas of Forgotten Places takes us to 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.
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.
Original 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.
Here Travis Elborough introduces Atlas of Forgotten Places:
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