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Fallen Glory audiobook
- By: James Crawford
- Narrator: John Lee
- Category: Architecture, Buildings, General
- Length: 20 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Fallen Glory Audiobook Summary
AN INVITING, FASCINATING COMPENDIUM OF TWENTY-ONE OF HISTORY’S MOST FAMOUS LOST PLACES, FROM THE TOWER OF BABEL TO THE TWIN TOWERS
Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen—as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed or fail. They can live. And, sooner or later, they die.
In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue. Soap operas on the grandest scale, they feature war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope. Frequently their afterlives have been no less dramatic—their memories used and abused down the millennia for purposes both sacred and profane. They provide the stage for a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and even Bruce Springsteen.
The twenty-one structures Crawford focuses on include The Tower of Babel, The Temple of Jerusalem, The Library of Alexandria, The Bastille, Kowloon Walled City, the Berlin Wall, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Ranging from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile and the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London and New York, Fallen Glory is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture.
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Fallen Glory Full Details
| Narrator | John Lee |
| Length | 20 hours 29 minutes |
| Author | James Crawford |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781524779863 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Fallen Glory is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: architecture, world history, architecture books, architect, civilization, innovation, coffee table books, historical books, gifts for history buffs, history, history books, coffee table decor, history teacher gifts, history gifts, civil engineering, civilizations, architecture gifts, architect gifts, history buff gifts, architecture book, history of architecture, architecture coffee table books, history lovers gifts, geography, historical, journalism, rome, archaeology, ww2, ancient history, world war ii, european history, Architecture, Buildings, General, Architecture, History, General, History, Civilization The BISAC Subject Code is Architecture, Buildings, General
Additional info
The publisher of the Fallen Glory is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524779863.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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