Abandoned Industrial Places: Factories, Laboratories, Mills And Mines That The World Left Behind

The Decaying Remnants Of Obselete Industries And Defunct Commerce - Whether Coal Mines, Shipyards, Factories, Shopping Centres, Power Plants, Warehouses Or Mills - Lie Scattered In Desolate Locations Throughout The World. These Left-Over Structures Still Hold Memories Of The Life That Was Once There. Transience Was Built In From The Start. When A Mine Was Worked Out, It Was Abandoned; Sometimes Its Machinery Was Removed To Another Mine, But Often It Was Easier To Equip The New Place With More Up-To-Date Equipment.Abandoned Industrial Places Explores The Discarded Detritus Of Our Modern Mechanized Age. Discover The Grand Ore Dock In Marquette, Usa, Squatting Isolated In The Waters Of Lake Superior; Or The Abandoned Caspian Sea Oil Rigs And Drilling Gear In Azerbaijan; Or The Enormous, Gaping Pit Of The 1200M (3900Ft) Wide Mirny Diamond Mine In Sakha Republic, Russia; Or The 700M (765Yd) High Wall Of Latticed Steel Towers Of The Duga Radar In Chernobyl, Ukraine; Or The Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, New York - Formerly The WorldS Largest Sugar Refinery When Built In 1882; Or The Still Contaminated Fisher Body Plant 21 In Detroit, Usa, A Place Where General Motors Created Some Of Their Great Marques For Almost A Hundred Years.Filled With More Than 200 Memorable Photographs From Every Part Of The Planet, Abandoned Industrial Places Provides A Strange And Often Spooky Insight Into The Life And Workings Of Industries Long Since Ceased.