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The Secret Life of Hidden Places

The Secret Life of Hidden Places Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them

Hardback (14 Mar 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

You found a key... The Labyrinth. The Sunken Manor. The Gateway to Hell-do you dare enter?

This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in the Swiss Alps, a Japanese temple full of traps, a Parisian apartment locked and untouched since World War II, a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Washington, DC, and a spooky "initiation" well in Portugal built by a secret society. How far down can you climb before losing your nerve?

About the Publisher

Workman Publishing Company

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9781523516988
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Workman Publishing Company
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 700g
Height: 159mm
Width: 236mm
Spine width: 26mm