Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Gray Jonathan
Title : Lost cities
Year : 2003

Link download : Gray_Jonathan_-_Lost_cities.zip

Introduction. Cities spring up for many and varied reasons. These can be commerce, politics, religion, convenience of location, or simply the pleasantness of the locality. And they usually die for reasons such as these: gradual climate change, sudden disaster (natural or man-made), or again commerce, politics or religion. The demise of the population centers covered in this book are extremely varied. They range from desertification, rise of sea level, war, earthquakes, alteration of trade routes, erosion, and fireballs from the sky. But the common factor of interest is people… how they lived. How they died. The interplay of events in their lives. People are wonderful… fascinating… intriguing creatures. And this is a book of PEOPLE ! ...