Walking in Ruins

Résumé du livre

"Ruins can grasp out imagination and tantalise us with thoughts of lost buildings, lost lives ... Nicholson takes us on walks not only to iconic sites - Stonehenge and Alcatraz among them - but also to lesser-known and out-of-the-way places, such as a ruined zoo on the edge of Hollywood and an abandoned council estate in Sheffield. There are urban ruins and desert ruins, industrial and architectural ruins, even defence-of-the-realm ruins to be explored. And as he explores he traces the marks ruins have left in the imaginations of other writers and artists, then ponders what exactly makes a ruin and why ruins are so important to us.