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Abandoned Palaces: Great Houses, Mansions, Estates and Hotels Suspended in
Time
BOOK DETAIL
Series: Abandoned Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Amber Books (August 6, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10:
1782748628 ISBN-13: 978-1782748625 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 0.9 x 11.7 inches Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View
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Book Description
From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces tells the stories behind
dilapidated structures all around the world. Built to impress, built with style and grandeur, built, above all, to last: it’s all
the more remarkable when buildings such as these fall into disrepair and become ruins. From ancient Roman villas to the
French colonial hill station in Cambodia that was one of the final refuges of the Khmer Rouge, Abandoned Palaces charts
the decline of what were once the homes and holiday resorts of the super wealthy. Ranging from crumbling hotels in the
Catskills or in Mozambique, to grand mansions in Taiwan, to an unfinished Elizabethan summerhouse, to a modern
megalomaniac’s partially completed estate, they were deserted for reasons including politics, bankruptcy, personal
tragedies, natural and man-made disasters, and changing tastes and fashions. Filled with stunning, nostalgic images, this
volume is a brilliant and moving examination of worlds left behind.