Yeah, so, that was my little TED talk about castles and ruins, back to this book. And very often looking at them or standing there imagining how it used to look like, it gives me strange sense of peacefulness. Like they do not belong to this world as if they were plucked straight from a fantasy story and left here. For some reason they have an eerie, almost ethereal feel to them. I have a confession to make I adore old castes and especially ruins. Yeah, so, that was my little TED ***Advance Review Copy generously provided through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*** ***Advance Review Copy generously provided through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*** I have a confession to make I adore old castes and especially ruins. With 150 outstanding color photographs, Abandoned Castles is a brilliant pictorial examination of castles, forts, keeps, and defensive fortifications from the ancient world to the end of the nineteenth century.more Some are beautiful, others brutal, but each tells a story about the way we fought and defended ourselves, and how the building has survived and aged, long after the people it was built by are gone. Others, such as the Cathar Château de Queribus in southern France, stand high above peaceful coastlines, testament to the wars of the past. Many have long ceased to serve a purpose, but then, like the crusader castle Krak de Chevaliers in Syria today, their impenetrable walls become the site of more fighting centuries later. From medieval Japanese castles to Spanish colonial forts in West Africa to Norman stone keeps, the book ranges widely across history. From ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century, Abandoned Castles explores more than 100 forts, castles and defensive strongholds from all around the globe. A fairytale medieval castle fallen into ruin. From medieval Japanese castles to Spanish colonial forts in West Africa to Norman stone keeps, th An ancient hilltop fortress.
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