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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
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About Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost
Product Description One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 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 Review "If you told me that British historian Matthew Green was some kind of delightful English Calvino who’d conjured up an odd fictional encyclopedia of disappeared cities, lost towns, and ghostly villages, I’d still want to read this book…[I]t is worth spending a little time with history’s stark examples of time’s dominion over us all." ― Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub"Through these slices of British history, Green has woven a moving exploration of impermanence, memory, and the hypnotic allure of the past." ― Sara Shreve, Library Journal (starred review)"Full of evocative imagery and fascinating lore, this vibrant account eulogizes the past and issues a stark warning for the future." ― Publishers Weekly"Shadowlands is so well researched, beautifully written, and packed with interesting detail. Matthew Green is both historian and prophet, offering a warning we need to pay attention to.… Alarming and valuable." ― Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life"Superb. A beautifully written atlas of Ghost Britain, a summoning of places lost to memory, and a deft excavation of the void underlying myths of national identity." ― William Atkins, author of The Immeasurable World"A haunting, lyrical tour around the lost places of Britain." ― Charlotte Higgins, author of Under Another Sky"An exquisitely written, moving, and elegiac exploration of the dead ends and lost causes of history―a book to savor and cherish." ― Suzannah Lipscomb, author of The King Is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII"A beautiful book, truly original. Shadowlands is poetic history written with great literary flair, inqusitiveness, soul-searching and humanity…It is a marvelous achievement." ― Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England"A haunting work of resurrection, stinging in a perpetual present. Shamanic consciousness for the borderlands of memory." ― Iain Sinclair, author of The Last London From the Back Cover Praise for Shadowlands from Great Britain"A beautifully written, intelligent book, and it is offered as a warning as well as a memorial."― James McConnachie, Sunday Times"An eloquent tour of lost communities…[Green] disinters their rich history and reimagines the lives of those who walked their streets…By doing so, h
