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Breaking history, lost America : vanished civilizations, abandoned towns, and roadside attractions, Don Rauf

eng

Includes bibliographical references

mapsillustrations

no index present

non fiction

Breaking history

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Don Rauf

Breaking history

lost America : vanished civilizations, abandoned towns, and roadside attractions

"Breaking History books offer a front row seat to history as it broke (like 'breaking news') and give the blow-by-blow of historical discovery--what we learned, when we learned it, who made the discovery, and how. Lost America is an illustrated look at fascinating places in the United States that have existed only in myth and have never been found, those that were abandoned and why, and those that were lost to social upheaval or natural disaster. The book reviews the history behind these places--how they began, how long they endured, why they were lost, and how many have been rediscovered. Included are accounts of the mysterious disappearance of the Anasazi from the Southwest, the abandonment of the Roanoke Colony in 1590, the environmental disaster that caused the population of Centralia, Pennsylvania to evacuate the town in the 1980s, and the nearly-intact ghost town of Bodie, California. The book also includes places that were thought to exist, but did not--or not yet, anyway: legendary Norse settlements, lost cities of gold, and The Fountain of Youth"--, Provided by publisher

Lost America, vanished civilizations, abandoned towns, and roadside attractions