Description
Book SynopsisExploring some of the world’s eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europe’s last leper colony and South Atlantic whaling stations, along with once grand mansions and colonial settlements and churches, and much more.
Arranged geographically, the book takes us from New York’s East River to islands off Alaska, from a French Napoleonic-era fort off the coast of Normandy to deserted villages on remote Scottish isles, from Venetian sanatoria to Croatian penal colonies, Japanese mining colonies to Sudanese deserted ports and abandoned atolls in the Indian Ocean. Leafing through these pages, the reasons for abandonment are revealed: climate change sealing off fresh water or river channels, shifting economic forces making life too hard, religious conflict, or wars disrupting daily life – or the absence of war rendering a military settlement unnecessary.
With more than 180 outstanding colour photographs and fascinating captions, Abandoned Islands is a brilliant pictorial exploration of lost worlds.
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
AMERICAS:
Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada
Attu Island, Alaska, United States
Guard Island, Alaska, United States
D’Arcy Island, British Columbia, Canada
Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada
McNabs Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
L’Îsle-aux-Marins, St Pierre and Miquelon
Caribou Island, Ontario, Canada
Turtle Island, Michigan and Ohio, United States
Año Nuevo Island, California, United States
Alcatraz Island, California, United States
Pollepel Island, New York, United States
North Brother Island, New York, United States
Hart Island, New York, United States
Ellis Island, New York, United States
Fort Carroll, Maryland, United States
Holland Island, Maryland, United States
Cumberland Island, Georgia, United States
Fort Jefferson, Florida, United States
La Isla de las Muñecas, Mexico
Devil’s Island, French Guiana
Klein Curaçao, Curaçao
Gorgona Island, Colombia
Ilha da Queimada Grande, Brazil
Lobos de Tierra, Peru
Keppel Island, Falkland Islands
EUROPE:
Dragonera, Balearic Islands, Spain
Danskøya, Svalbard, Norway
Helgøya, Norway
Elliðaey, Iceland
Gruinard, Scotland
Cara, Scotland
Castle Stalker, Scotland
Loch an Eilein, Scotland
Mingulay, Scotland
Shillay, Scotland
Scarba, Scotland
Hirta, St Kilda, Scotland
Devenish, Northern Ireland
Great Blasket, Ireland
Innisfallen, Ireland
Inishmurray, Ireland
Skellig Michael, Ireland
St Catherine’s, Wales
Stack Rock Fort, Wales
Thorne Island Fort, Wales
Samson, Isles of Scilly, England
No Man’s Land Fort, England
Cézembre, France
Gavrinis, France
Île du Large, Îsles St-Marcouf, France
Dragonera, Balearic Islands, Spain
Gaiola, Italy
Isola dei Cappuccini, Sardinia, Italy
Isola delle Correnti, Sicily, Italy
Torre Scola, Italy
Madonna del Monte, Italy
Poveglia, Italy
Comino, Malta
Daksa, Croatia
Sveti Grgur, Croatia
Sveti Andrija, Croatia
Baljenac, Croatia
Goli Otok, Croatia
Mamula, Montenegro
Delos, Greece
Spinalonga, Crete, Greece
Aniva Lighthouse, Sakhalin, Russia
Kolyuchin, Russia
Bolshoy Zayatsky, Russia
Bolshoy Tyuters, Russia
Fort Alexander, Russia
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA:
Gemiler, Turkey
Islet on Lake Bafa, Turkey
Sedir, Turkey
Bunce, Sierra Leone
Tigres, Angola
St Croix, South Africa
Central, Kenya
Suakin, Sudan
Tiran, Saudi Arabia
Chagos Archipelago
Nosy Mangabe, Madagascar
ASIA & THE PACIFIC:
Boyuk Zira, Azerbaijan
Middle Ground Coastal Battery, India
Ross Island, Andaman Islands, India
Houtouwan, Shengshan, China
Gajajima, Japan
Hashima, Japan
Okunoshima, Japan
Sarah, Tasmania, Australia
Maria, Tasmania, Australia
Whitsunday, Australia
Nan Madol, Federated States of Micronesia
Antipodes Islands, New Zealand
Adams Island, New Zealand
Enderby, New Zealand
Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Clipperton, France
Howland, United States
Tetepare, Solomon Islands
Deception Island, Antarctica
