Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

by Matthew Green and Matthew Green

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393635341
• ISBN13: 9780393635348
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"