阴影地带：穿越英国失落的城市和消失的村庄的旅程

一位“杰出的伦敦历史学家”（BBC电台）通过其废弃的村庄和城镇，以前所未有的方式讲述了英国的故事。
淹死了。被沙子掩埋。被瘟疫夺去了生命。从悬崖上摔下来。这是关于英国诡异而非凡的鬼城和村庄的非凡故事；曾经充满生机的阴影地带。透过历史的缝隙，我们可以看到邓威治，一座中世纪的城市，在海上风暴的冲击下坠入悬崖；被黑死病摧毁的瓦拉姆·珀西废弃村庄；摩尔于2002年发掘了失落的特雷勒奇城；还有一个诺福克村庄被军队僵尸化，变成了纳粹、苏联和阿富汗的训练村庄。
英国历史学家和广播员马修·格林（Matthew Green）讲述了这些地方兴衰的惊人故事，激发了在那里生活、工作、梦想和死亡的人们的活力。格林在英国各地旅行，探索这些令人难以忘怀且往往美丽的遗迹。格林将读者带到这些失落的城镇，它们摇摇欲坠地濒临被遗忘，生动地捕捉到大海一排排房屋被刮走的声音、中世纪葡萄酒的味道，或是在该国最高悬崖上猎杀海雀的景象。我们经历了他们的鼎盛时期，目睹了他们的毁灭，重温了他们挥之不去的遗骸，因为他们被驱逐者哀悼，被艺术家、作家和特立独行者重新想象。
《暗影之地》是对英国不为人知的历史的一次惊人的原始挖掘，它让我们更真实地感受到了时间的进步和破坏，而此时此刻我们自己的许多定居点正面临前所未有的威胁。
16幅插图；3张地图
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before―through its abandoned villages and towns.
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training.
Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks.
A stunning and original excavation of Britain’s untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.
16 illustrations; 3 maps

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