I have to admit I am a sucker for this kind of photography -- beautifully composed shots of abandoned ruins all over the world. There is not a lot of text, but in the long run, there does not need to be. The photos are the point and the rich and saturated colors of the photos are detailed enough to get lost inside. You can wonder what these places looked like in their primes, with people busily working and all the machines running. But you can look at it as what it is -- a dystopian look at what has been left behind by economics or progress.

This is a beautiful book to look at. There is a nice selection of places around the world. The places and photographs are spooky. There is not a lot of information included, the photographs are the stars. This book will make a great gift. Enjoy

Not a lot of information, but there are some interesting bits in the captions. The main draw here is the gorgeous photography- I've always been a sucker for an interesting abandoned building, and this book doesn't disappoint. I'm a scifi geek, so I'm digging the post-apocalyptic vibe these photos have, the whole nature taking back what was taken from it thing. Also, there's some really interesting architecture going on. The book is divided by continent, and there's a wide variety of sites to visually explore.

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It is a great visual of the places - mostly a visual book with the reader getting information through the captions next to the image. Mainly the exterior is shown but for a number do get an interior look as well. There are places from around the world - divided by continent.

This book focuses on Abandoned Industrial Places in all different industries across the entire world. It's an interesting way to look at our lasting legacy on the planet. Urban Explorers would really enjoy this book, just keeping in mind many of the buildings have been demolished or converted into other purposes like arts venues.
Thanks to Netgalley.com and Amber Books for this eARC copy.

Split into five continents, this book looks at Industrial places that have been abandoned from mines, grain stores, naval bases, shoe factories and more.

It certain is interesting to see the old equipment that lies rusty, or the building that looks unloved. These photographs throw an interesting perspective on these desolate sites. Some of these sites are isolated and a number are in the big cities. In some areas, the buildings are being regenerated and salvaged pieces are being preserved in exhibitions.

Each photograph comes with a little history as to the providence of the building or site.

A most delightful book, a great one for the coffee table to be looked at from time to time.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

Abandoned Industrial Places: Factories, Laboratories, Mills and Mines that the World Left Behind by David Ross 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 Mirny diamond mine in Sakha Republic, Russia; or the wall of latticed steel towers of the Duga radar in Chernobyl, Ukraine; or the Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, New York – formerly the world’s 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.

Abandoned Industrial Places is a beautiful book. I grew up splitting my time between a small greenhouse and a small manufacturing company (my family was very busy). Because of that industrial locations and machinery are special to me, and I have always seen a special kind of beauty in it while others just saw grease and metal. I thought the pictures were nicely varied, in industry and location. The colors of the buildings, machinery, and in some cases nature reclaiming space were attention grabbing. Some were bold, others muted, but they were well balanced. I really enjoyed studying the photographs and thinking about the impact the rise and fall of each of these locations had on their communities and the individuals that worked there- and how many small moments have been forgotten over the years.

Abandoned Industrial Places is a fascinating look at locations that have been abandoned over the years. Some images are beautiful, others are haunting, but they are all thought provoking.

I have always enjoyed Urban Exploration and I actually spend more time then I am willing to say on Youtube watching Urban Exploration videos. There is a strange beauty in the old building and the rusting and rotting items left behind. I cannot understand all the graffiti and destruction though. Why do people want to break things, scatter things, and cover everything in Spray paint? These buildings are a part of our past, whether or not you live in that town or even in a different country. Like the Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn NY.

I am a huge fan of photography books as well. I will never be able to see all the places and things in photography books. I read one about Oregon Last week and have added Oregon to my bucket list, form that book. I also read one about junk yards, and although I am not a car guru I found beauty under the rust of that book as well.

This book is a photo book of Abandoned Industrial Places from around the world. Some places in this book I have heard of, even drove past a few like the Willow Steam Plant in Philadelphia. I would love to be able to go in some of these plants and explore, but for now I will just revel in the photographs of this book. I would love to visit the Wilson Carbide Mill in Ottawa Canada, there is a stunning waterfall outside of the crumbling building that is just stunning. Some of these Factories, hospitals, and other building are quite old, others have just recently closed. They may not be much to some people but I loved every photo in this book.

I received this book from the Author or Publisher via Netgalley.com and chose to leave this review.

Mines obviously get made redundant when they stop producing enough of what they're there for to make a profit. Industry has needs that change over the decades, and whole swathes of whole cities can get an obituary notice now and again. This book, which haphazardly surveys the entire world and the unusual kind of beauty in wrecks of manufacturing plants, disused mill workings and so on, covers paper, textile and sugar mills, borax, cinnabar, and asbestos mining, and the production of explosives and submarines – and pretty much everything Detroit was once used for. And that's just the North America chapter. I can't say I know precisely who will be drawn to buying this book – yes, it looks lovely inasmuch as it's been very well produced, but the people who like these places to visit will have an app or a website to use for them to go ticking them off in person. They won't, I don't feel, be happy enough with just the aesthetics of a picture library showing them around. The book doesn't really present an argument either for or against these ruins – there's barely enough text for that, beyond the informative captions to every picture. It does point out that obsolescence in a factory or steel plant is being reached more and more quickly, but it glosses over nuclear sites as if they too will succumb to nature in our lifetime, like so much else on these pages. For what it is, for seeing inside Icelandic fish factories, and for seeing weeds in operation where men once were, this is still a success, but will its artistry too not sit around doing little for too long? Three and a half stars.

Thanks to the publishers for sharing this book. I love pictures of urban decay, and this book really delivered on what it said it would contain. Some of the photos are very beautiful, and the accompanying text is interesting. My full review appears on Weekend Notes.

I've always been fond of urbex so that book was really fascinating for me. The pictures are beautiful and I found a lot of spots I wanna visit. Only wish I could get a look at a physical copy of this book to enjoy the pictures more. I loved the fact that these places were located all around the world and not only in North America, and learning about the history of those places was very interesting.
It reminded me that it's been years since my eyes landed on the book "Ruins of Detroit" for the first time and that I still haven't read it 🙄

Thanks a lot to NetGalley and Amber Books Ltd for letting me see these marvels.

Two genres you don't tend to see on my reading pile are Art & Photography and Outdoor & Nature.. I'm not really sure why, I do have some books on the shelves of these genres (admittedly not many), but I do enjoy them. I came across Abandoned Industrial Places by random chance but I'm glad I did. The book is exceptionally well presented, engaging, and entrancing.

This book documents not just industrial heritage but also peoples' heritage. Once upon a time, each abandoned industrial location logged within the pages brimmed with life and roaring with noise. They are the industry of the local area, the livelihood of workers which put food on their family's tables. Now silent, they seem sad, lonely, and of course creepy now, as mother nature reclaims them.

This book provides a platform for people like me to experiences hazardous places that I'd be too scared to visit and puts a sad but romantic light on a subject some reject as beautiful. The photographs within do speak a thousand words and during this time of Covid-19 lock-down, it is a great time to look back upon our industrial heritage and ponder its positives and negatives.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, Amber Books Ltd for an E-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I really enjoyed this book The pictures were phenomenal, and I really want to go now to all these places and explore them.

An interesting book with a good selection of photos. I would have preferred to see some shots of the left-behind human elements, but the buildings on their own are worth taking a look at.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

Another stunning collection of photographs by David Ross, this time of abandoned industrial places from different continents across the globe!
The photographs are amazing and capture such abandoned places in a beautiful, mesmerising way.
Some of these would look amazing framed and hung on a wall. It always amazes me how many places are left abandoned with such potential to be something more and with so much history behind them.
There are intriductionsvto each part of the world the industrial places are set and small paragraphs accompanying each set of photos

The photography and the snippets of story are done well in this title. People who enjoy the mystery of Abandoned structures will enjoy this title.

The images in this book are truly amazing. Ross also provides the historical context of when the buildings were used and for what purpose. It reminds you of the impact that humans have had across the global lanscape. The photos of abandoned mines are especially haunting in their reminder of the havoc that we have brought onto our environment.

On an American road trip a few years ago I was travelling from Las Vegas, Nevada to Lone Pine, California and stopped off at what was described as a ghost town. Darwin, on the edge of Death Valley, was formerly a mining town where silver-lead deposits were discovered in the late 1800s. Today, you can see a scattering of abandoned buildings and some rusted machinery, I thought it a bleak and slightly threatening place. I lingered some short distance away but not for long, I was actually glad to escape. But it’s a place that lingered in my thoughts, I found myself thinking about the people who once lived and worked there and wondered what it was like back then. The ramshackle buildings in this uncompromising and disheartening spot painted part of a picture in my mind and I couldn’t help trying to fill in the gaps.

The fact is that decaying remains of obsolete industries lie scattered throughout the world. This book, comprising over two hundred photographs, explores sites that home abandoned buildings and left behind machinery . They range from the downright spooky to the eerily beautiful, and all points in between. There are huge abandoned sites – former factories, a shipyard and even an abandoned power station – and there are amazing structures such as the old pottery kilns in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Ancient machinery that has been overtaken by more modern technology and is too bulky to move has been left in situ, much of it defying identification. Sometimes there’s an incongruous sign stamped into the metal or carved onto a surface that provides a clue as to its origin: a piece of metal identified as a circuit breaker in an abandoned tin mining dredge in Malaysia is stamped with its makers name, a company based in Brighton, England.

There are huge pits left infilled, such as an open diamond mine in Russia, some 1700 feet deep and 3900 feet across, which is claimed to be the second largest man made hole on earth. A steam powered crane, over a hundred years old, adorns the harbour side in Sydney, Australia. And in Brooklyn, New York a massive building once home of the Domino Sugar Refinery is in the process of being transformed for use as a residential block and for office space.

There is something haunting about these sites full of abandoned metal and big empty buildings, a real sense of something left behind by the past. The photographs conjure the imagination, they demand that you complete the tale of their former life for yourself. I found them compelling and sad, but in a strange way uplifting too. A fabulous book full of untold stories.

This was not what I hoped for at all - just exterior shots of various abandoned industrial sites around the world (often closeups of specific objects or parts of buildings), with a tiny blurb of text. No peeks inside anything, no real history info on the sites, etc. What really disappointed me, though, was that the very first photo was incorrectly identified: the Crystal Mill is in Colorado (where I live), NOT New Mexico! This made me question the rest of the information presented in the book.

Reading this book and looking at the incredible photographs, I was thoroughly engrossed in minutes. The pictures reminded me that life is fleeting. In a handful of years many of these sites could be demolished. I was very happy to have seen and read this book, from a photographic and historical perspective. I received an e-book from NetGalley in return for an unbiased review.