Abandoned Islands

A stunning photographic guide to some of the world's most remote islands left to return to nature.   Exploring some of the world's eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American Civil War for ...

A stunning photographic guide to some of the world's most remote islands left to return to nature.   Exploring 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, 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 p