It was fun going through this book, as it was so many great photographs by fascinating abandoned places. If one is into architecture, history or urban exploring, I think this is a fun book.

I read this book as an advance review copy from NetGalley, and I thought it was fascinating!

The title says it all - it's a collection of photographs of abandoned industrial sites around the world, broken into five geographic regions: North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia and the Pacific. The photographs themselves are stunningly composed and full of details showing you what the structure was like when it was "alive", along with a small paragraph about its history.

The buildings are an amazing look at the world. I kept noticing things, like how the windows are slightly different in every region, or how the scrollwork on a stair railing is so English. You can't help but be drawn in by how each building is constructed and arranged.

This is a hard book to stop looking at. It is gorgeous, and if you've ever driven by an abandoned factory and found yourself staring at it, you'll love it.

This is a fascinating book with some phenomenal photos of abandoned mines, factories and other industrial places around the world. The photos are frequently really beautiful, which was a nice surprise since some of these books tend towards the more creepy and grotesque (think abandoned mental hospitals and looted libraries). Many of these sites had a startling beauty even reading that they were still full of toxic materials and seeing the graffiti and ruin. Locations are broken down by continent, and a short paragraph gives just enough information about each site.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Industries spring up all over the world. While many have flourished, there have been many more than have closed for one reason or another. Closed industrial properties can sit vacant and unused for years, and this leads to opportunities for fascinating pictures.

Abandoned Industrial Places documents factories and industrial complexes that have been closed and left in various states of disrepair. The book is full of colorful pictures and short descriptions of what the pictures show. You can imagine what the sites must have been like when they were at their peak of operation.

This is an interesting book as it highlights forgotten places from around the world.

I received a complimentary copy from the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

I had just been telling someone I love looking at and reading about abandoned places and then I saw this book and knew I needed it in my life. I loved it, it did not disappoint.

A Wide and Varied Selection

The bottom line here is that if you like these sorts of books, you'll like this book.

You mostly get full page photos, or even lots of two page spreads. So there's a lot to look at and absorb. Each photo has a brief introduction/caption, but otherwise there is little text. This is a photo book, and that was fine by me. The photos are high-res and good quality, with good detail, sharpness, and color balance.

The subjects are drawn from all over the world. There's a nice balance among big sites, (abandoned industrial sites and factories, mines, even a Russian space port), machinery closeups, building details, and some overgrown rural operations, ( a sugar cane facility in Hawaii). A few photos are "artsy", but most are just well composed site studies.

There was a lot to look at, and this was curated with a good eye for variety. A nice find.

(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

Abandoned industrial places by David Ross.
Brilliant. I mainly looked at the pictures. They were fascinating. Some were eerie and creepy. Surprised by how old some were too. 5*.