LEADER 00000cam 2200373 i 4500 001 921048309 003 OCoLC 005 20151010091731.0 008 150707s2015 nyuab 000 0 eng 010 2015024937 020 9781631910005 (hardcover) 020 1631910000 (hardcover) 035 (OCoLC)921048309|z(OCoLC)902661255 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dBTCTA|dBDX|dYDXCP|dAU@|dOCLCO|dNYP |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 082 00 001.9|223 092 001.9|bLEC 100 1 Le Carrer, Olivier,|eauthor. 245 10 Atlas of cursed places :|ba travel guide to dangerous and frightful destinations /|cOlivier Le Carrer, Sibylle Le Carrer. 246 30 Travel guide to dangerous and frightful destinations 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bBlack Dog & Leventhal,|c2015. 300 142 pages :|billustrations, maps (color) ;|c27 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 505 0 Château de Montségur : Satan's Synagogue -- Rocca- Sparviera : The Phantom Village -- Nuremberg : The Sinister Reverberation of Marching Boots -- Oumaradi : Shipwrecked by the Sands -- Charybdis and Scylla : A High- Risk Cruise -- Kasanka National Park : The Invasion of the Bats -- Valley of the Kings : The Curse of Aten -- Moriah and Golgotha : Spiritual Nightmares -- Kibera : An Uncharted Cesspool -- Zapadnaya Litsa :The Antechamber of Hell -- Gulf of Aden : Hunting Ground of Pirates -- Gur- Emir : The Malevolent Mausoleum -- Thilafushi : The Toxic Lagoon -- Jharia : Underground Inferno -- Sunda Strait : The Monster Krakatoa -- Houtman Abrolhos : Massacre of the Shipwrecked -- Aokigahara : The Suicide Forest -- Cape York : In the Land of the Killer Crocodiles -- Takuu : An Atoll Living on Borrowed Time -- Nauru : Blighted by Phosphate -- Mavericks : The Big Wave A Cold-Blooded Monster -- Nevada Triangle : A Danger in the Sky -- Tonina : The Mystery of the Mayas -- Amityville : The Devil's Lair -- Cité Soleil : All the Misfortunes on Earth -- Cape Horn : Sailors' Nightmare -- Bermuda Triangle : Empire of Enigmas -- Sable Island : A Ship Trap in the Atlantic -- Cumbre Vieja : Birthplace of the Tsunami -- Eilean Mor : Lighthouse Mystery 520 This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death. The locations gathered here include the dangerous Strait of Messina, home of the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis; the coal town of Jharia, where the ground burns constantly with fire; Kasanka National Park in Zambia, where 8 million migrating bats darken the skies; the Nevada Triangle in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where hundreds of aircraft have disappeared; and Aokigahara Forest near Mount Fuji in Japan, the world's second most popular suicide location following the Golden Gate Bridge. 650 0 Hazardous geographic environments. 650 0 Parapsychology and geography. 650 0 Haunted places. 700 1 Le Carrer, Sibylle,|eauthor.
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