A very interesting look at the world, from one of my preferred providers of quick yet informative browse materials, Amber Books. This starts as if it will concern ecologies we're missing – the reed beds, rainforests, your Dead Sea depth, and suchlike. But no – after a few instances of that, and while still in Britain, we're concerning ourselves with a large unused viaduct, the ruination of Liverpool docks that took them off the UNESCO list, and then a plainer-than-plain French urban jungle. So this is neither really a coffee table book about the world's sites few may have the privilege of sighting, and certainly not a tome for urban explorers, but something on the cusp in between. Just call it the Venn diagram you thought you had no interest in, and check this out.

Here are Bavarian towns too close to a river flooding from climate change, a Kosovan monastery whose wall art is crumbling from damp, right out to Preah Khan, Cambodia. What are vanishing are places, animals only found in sanctuaries, ecosystems, or even traditional building methods, as in Myanmar, where it would seem a good thing that the locals now want concrete construction, at the same time we in the West want their teak and bamboo styling. It's not a good thing if cultures get whitewashed like this, mind.

Any longer and the texts, which have to tell us mostly every time what is wrong, would become repetitive, but they remain finely-judged captions, and the book is not too depressing and doom-laden. Not to pretend a lack of urgency needed, though, it suggests we need to know what it is we can save before we're invested, and this is a great font of relevant knowledge.

This is a good work on the Endangered places but I believe considering monuments under this topic must be delusional for the author to get it right.
For example, let me consider India from Asia section of this book. Taking 'Sundarban Delta' & 'Western Ghats of India' is a quite worthy to highlight, to bring under focus but Taj Mahal is not a place that is endangered; that could be a separate topic to discuss when it comes to 'medieval world's monuments' or '8 Wonders of the Modern world'.
Probabaly this world knew nothing about India's Glory by the time & sitting on internet searching for places will never solve the issue. There could have been 'Back waters of Kerala' which are under radar for increasing in Ocean level slowly and steadily leveled-up back waters too and covered more land are compared to earlier times.

Overall, this is a nice collection to bring attention to but Photos were not up to the level when it comes to print a book.

The images were breathtakingly beautiful. As a massive fan of climate science, this was perfect for me. In my opinion, the images made the message much more accessible, as many books just list statistics and never fully show the extent of the situation.

I was looking forward to reading this and enjoying the photography, however, all I could get was a message stating that the file was too large to render on the NetGalley Shelf app which I am sad about. In the future, I will have to find another way for photo-heavy files to be read on this device. I appreciate the opportunity.

A beautiful but depressing account of many of the world's most endangered places, both natural and man-made. The stunning photos act as a testament to these places that may soon all be gone. However, there is still hope - as some of the examples highlight - if we change our behaviours now, all will not be lost.

Having loved the previous geographical coffee table books by Claudia Martin, I just had to read Endangered Places.
I had expected this book to be all about endangered natural places, so I was somewhat surprised to find quite a lot of man-made places and buildings in this book. I guess I never realised those could be endangered too? I will always enjoy photos and facts about nature more than photos and facts about buildings, so I did enjoy Endangered Places a little less than I thought I would, but that's just me.
In any case, there are stunning photos of both to find in this book, as well as an eye-opening amount of elements that cause places to become endangered, most of which can be lumped together as: mankind's short-sightedness, sad but true. Excessive tourism, overexploitation, developments, man-made structures like dams, poaching, vandalism and climate change (Mount Kilimanjaro has lost about 85% of its glaciers in a century!), they all have a hand in endangering more than a few places around the world.
Two of my favourite photos in this book are Venice at sunset and an absolutely stunning image of a ship against the backdrop of the Grey Glacier in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Chile.
Recommended.

This is a beautiful book!
I spent many hours looking up different locations mentioned and what conservation projects are going on.
The book itself doesn't have a lot of information about the projects but it talks about a lot of places. Always a good reminder to care for what we have before it's gone

This is a very interesting book. Lots of great photographs with a quick fact about each, covering both natural and man-made places.

Out of curiosity, I compiled a list of the main dangers currently threatening the places shown to get an approximate number tally.

*Weather/Climate change = 70+
*Deforestation/Poaching/Hunting
Exploitation of Natural Resources = 30+
*Urbanisation/Development = 20+
*Invasive Species = 13+
*War/Conflict = 13
*Neglect/Abandonment = 13
*Vandalism/Theft = 8
*Pollution = 5
*Tourism = 5

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Endangered Places by Claudia Martin is dazzling therapy for the senses. Spellbinding, vivid and evocative photography zipped me to these locations in no time. I have seen several and knowing they are under serious threat is frightening...once they go, they are gone forever.

Over 100 places are captured in 180+ impossibly wondrous photos and are divided by continent. Not only will the reader become more aware of our attitudes and perceptions but get to know the places and phenomena discussed including wetlands, starling murmurations, castles, viaducts, vineyards, nature reserves, tropical rainforests, over-touristed Venice, Neptune Baths in Romania, the ancient city of Leptis Magna in Libya, ancient tombs in Sudan, Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, mud tower houses in Togo, Jerusalem's Old City, minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, Hawksbill turtle in the Maldives, otherworldly "snow monsters" in Japan and Bull kelp in Alaska. Such spectacular variety, all ours to care for and we could be doing a better job of preservation and conservation.

Claudia Martin's books are consistently superb and always automatic reads for me. Whether she inspires you to visit a few of these places or to research them further yourself, please don't miss out on her knowledge and information.

My sincere thank you to Amber Books Ltd. and NetGalley for providing me with an early digital copy of this important book.

The photography alone makes this book one that everyone should buy and add to their collection.

I recommend buying the hardcover book for your home. For yourself, you should buy the ebook to take with you when traveling.

The photographs demonstrate the fact that many places are in danger of being destroyed in the near future. If you are a person who loves to travel, this book will have you adding several places to your Travel Bucket List. I definitely added quite a few to my list.

The only Rating that I can give this book is a solid 5 out of 5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️