Travis Elborough
Goodreads Author
Member Since
August 2019
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Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
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2016
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Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today
8 editions
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2019
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Being a Writer: Advice, Musings, Essays and Experiences From the World's Greatest Authors
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3 editions
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2017
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A London Year: 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters
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8 editions
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2013
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Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe
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The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again
9 editions
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2008
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Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell
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7 editions
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2018
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Wish You Were Here: England on Sea
4 editions
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2010
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The Bus We Loved: London's Affair with the Routemaster
2 editions
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2005
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Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters
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2017
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“The catechism of the vinyl LP involved a complex series of rituals over sleeves, sides played, needles, fluff and cloths, that were only enhanced by the scents of the record (rather waxy) and cardboard (woodlouse dampish, if anything) that mingled with the actions like incense.”
― The Long-Player Goodbye: The album from vinyl to iPod and back again
― The Long-Player Goodbye: The album from vinyl to iPod and back again
“But deserts, even the driest and least inviting to animals and plants, contain subtle multitudes. And rather like silences (outside of vacuums) and as John Cage demonstrated with his famous 4'33" piece, they are often noisy with life.”
― Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today
― Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today
“Still, while the Old Testament God of Genesis might well have used the sixth day of the week to create all the creatures that lived on dry land, in the contemporary epoch Fridays, surely, are more readily associated with winding down than embarking on bold new exercises in urban development.”
― Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today
― Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today
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