Overview
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Once these industrial spaces were celebrated and thriving; now, theyāre ghostly and forlorn. When times change and theyāre no longer needed, power stations, gasworks, car plants, factories, and mine derricks are often too large to destroy. So they linger, looming over the landscape, haunting relics of the past. Ranging from Cubaās unfinished nuclear power station to atomic test sites in England, from Nevadaās silver towns to a French coal-washing facility, from a sugar factory in Belgrade to a whole mining island in Japan and, yes, Chernobyl, Abandoned Industrial Places captures these imposing, often eerie, structures. Some are magnificent pieces of architecture, others appear like ragged pieces of piping out of science fiction, but each one tells a fascinating story.Ā
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The abandoned places include:
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NORTH AMERICA:
Hudson Body Plant, Detroit; Crystal Mill near Marble, Colorado; Michigan Central Station, Detroit; Redstone Rocket Test Site, Huntsville, Alabama; Don Valley Brickworks, Toronto, Canada
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CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA:
Santa Laura Nitrate works, Chile; Petermann Island, Antarctica; Hacienda Yaxcopoil near Merida, Mexico (former hemp or henequen rope factory); Leith Harbour Whaling Station, South Georgia; Illegal Mine Site, Tambopata, Peru
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EUROPE:
Excavator Factory, Voronezh, Russia; Glassworks, HaidemuĢhl, Brandenburg, Germany; Plumain Factory, New Aquitaine, France; Sugar Factory, Belgrade, Serbia; Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Ukraine
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AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:
Lead mine, Morocco; Kolmanskop mining town, Namibia Drilling Rig; Vredehoek Quarry, South Africa
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ASIA AND THE PACIFIC:
Iron and Steel Mill, Loudi, Hunan, China; Hashima, mining island, Japan; Buran Transport, Baikonur, Kazakhstan;
Cockatoo Island Docks, Sydney, Australia
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This book title, Abandoned Industrial Places (Factories, Laboratories, Mills and Mines that the World Left Behind), ISBN: 9781782749844, by David Ross, published by Amber Books (August 4, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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