Shadowlands : a journey through Britain's lost cities and vanished villages / Matthew Green.
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- ISBN: 9780393635348
- ISBN: 0393635341
- Physical Description: x, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-348) and index. |
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Subject: | Extinct cities > Great Britain. Great Britain > History. Great Britain > Civilization. Great Britain > Description and travel. Green, M. R. (Matthew Robert) > Travel > Great Britain. |
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East Grand Forks Campbell Library | 941.03 GREEN 2022 (Text) | 523344 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aShadowlands : ‡ba journey through Britain's lost cities and vanished villages / ‡cMatthew Green. |
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250 | . | ‡aFirst American edition. | |
264 | 1. | ‡aNew York, NY : ‡bW. W. Norton & Company, ‡c[2022] | |
264 | 4. | ‡c©2022. | |
300 | . | ‡ax, 358 pages : ‡billustrations, maps ; ‡c24 cm. | |
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504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-348) and index. | |
520 | . | ‡aA "brilliant London historian" (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before--through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain's eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain's untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before. | |
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