The Lost Villages

Author : Camilla Sten
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250249265

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The Lost Village by Camilla Sten Pdf

*BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER FOR THE YEAR* for NPR "Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets." - New York Times book review "[A] scary, highly entertaining debut...that pays homage to Shirley Jackson." - South Florida Sun Sentinel A Most Anticipated Book Goodreads * Publishers Weekly * Crime Reads * Popsugar * Bookish * #1 Loanstar Pick in Canada An Indie Next pick! A Library Reads Pick! The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left—a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn—have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened. But there will be no turning back. Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice: They are not alone. They’re looking for the truth... But what if it finds them first? Come find out. "RELENTLESSLY CREEPY." —Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger (An NPR Best Horror Novel) "IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP READING." —Ragnar Jonasson, author of The Island "Readers will revel in the chills." - Booklist

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459746596

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Toronto's Lost Villages by Ron Brown Pdf

Explore the vestiges of the hamlets and villages that have been swallowed up by Toronto’s relentless growth. Over the course of more than two centuries, Toronto has ballooned from a muddy collection of huts on a swampy waterfront to Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Amid (and sometimes underneath) this urban agglomeration are the remains of many small communities that once dotted the region now known as Toronto and the GTA. Before European settlers arrived, Indigenous Peoples established villages on the shore of Lake Ontario. With the arrival of the English, a host of farm hamlets, tollgate stopovers, mill towns, and, later, railway and cottage communities sprang up. Vestiges of some are still preserved, while others have disappeared forever. Some are remembered, though many have been forgotten. In Toronto’s Lost Villages, all of their stories are brought back to life.

Author : Maurice Warwick Beresford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015028534132

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The Lost Villages of England by Maurice Warwick Beresford Pdf

Author : Alan L. Burnell,Kenny R. Wing
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0738573205

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Lost Villages of Flagstaff Lake by Alan L. Burnell,Kenny R. Wing Pdf

Permanent settlers began arriving at the village of Flagstaff around the 1820s, drawn by its advantageous location along the Dead River floodplain and the availability of waterpower at the outlet to Flagstaff Pond. In 1923, the Maine legislature passed a bill condemning a 25-mile section of the upper Dead River Valley to inundation, causing the eventual permanent flooding of the villages of Flagstaff, Dead River, and Bigelow. The bill authorized the construction of a dam at the river narrows at Long Falls and the subsequent creation of Flagstaff Lake. The properties in these towns were obtained by the process of eminent domain, and residents were forced to relocate. In the spring of 1950, Flagstaff Lake was officially created when the gates in Long Falls Dam were closed. It remains a controversial project today.

Author : DANE. LOVE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911043056

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SCOTLAND'S LOST VILLAGES. by DANE. LOVE Pdf

Author : Maggie A. Wheeler
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1894263413

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A Violent End by Maggie A. Wheeler Pdf

Mystery set in the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Author : Hugh Lucas,Eddie Devlin,John Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Lanarkshire (Scotland)
ISBN : 190251615X

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The Lost Villages by Hugh Lucas,Eddie Devlin,John Reilly Pdf

Author : Matthew Green
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393635355

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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew Green Pdf

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.

Author : Leigh Driver,Stephen Whitehorne
Publisher : New Holland Pub Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845374231

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The Lost Villages of England by Leigh Driver,Stephen Whitehorne Pdf

England is full of forsaken villages. Some were deserted in medieval times; others were taken over by armed forces; industry decline emptied others. This book showcases more than 50 of England's most fascinating 'lost' villages. Illustrated with full-color, modern-day photographs and archive pictures and documents, this book paints a vivid picture of what history has now forgotten.

Author : Raymond A. Wolf
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738565865

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The Lost Villages of Scituate by Raymond A. Wolf Pdf

In 1915, the general assembly appointed the Providence Water Supply Board to condemn 14,800 acres of land in rural Scituate. The hardworking people of the five villages were devastated. By December 1916, notices were delivered to the villagers stating that the homes and land they had owned for generations were to be taken and destroyed. Construction was well under way by 1921, and water was being stored by November 10, 1925. On September 30, 1926, the treatment plant began operation. It now serves more than 60 percent of Rhode Islanders. The $21 million project was the largest ever undertaken in the state at the time. The dam that annihilated the villages is 3,200 feet long and 100 feet high and holds back more than 40 billion gallons of water. Today these quiet villages lie up to 87 feet beneath the cold, dark waters of the Scituate Reservoir.

Author : John E. Vigar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Sussex (England)
ISBN : 1874336296

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The Lost Villages of Sussex by John E. Vigar Pdf

Author : Maurice Warwick Beresford,John G. Hurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89035116904

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Deserted Medieval Villages by Maurice Warwick Beresford,John G. Hurst Pdf

Author : Maggie Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459370171

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All My Worldly Goods by Maggie Wheeler Pdf

Author : Henry Buckton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857714503

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The Lost Villages by Henry Buckton Pdf

Across Britain there are more than 3,000 lost villages once-thriving communities that time and fortune have reduced to ivy-clad remnants and weather-worn ruins. Echoes of a former age, they evoke a natural curiosity as to who lived in them, what caused their decline. Bestselling author Henry Buckton goes in search of some of the Britain's more recent lost villages: Hallsands in Devon, swept away in a violent storm; the communities of Vatersay and Mingulay, in Scotland, victims to the changing fortunes of the local laird; and the picture-perfect village of Imber in Wiltshire, requisitioned for the nation in time of war but never given back. Combining rare photographs and the memories of those who knew the villages, the author provides a timely account of communities whose stories would otherwise soon be lost for ever.

Author : Anne-Marie Léveillé-Shields
Publisher : Lunenburg, Ont. : A.-M. L. Shields
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 0973363002

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Lost Villages, Found Communities by Anne-Marie Léveillé-Shields Pdf