BooksnonfictionThe Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
A beautifully written and photographed romp through some of the world's most secretive, seductive, and incredible places. In The Secret Life of Hidden Places, we're led on a global tour of the world's most amazing spaces and places--some hidden, others well known but secreted nonetheless--including manors, palaces, tunnels, rooms, staircases, and tombs. The author's lyrical prose, accompanies by captivating photographs, transports the reader to mysterious, alluring destinations--such as a mystically beautiful room made of amber last seen in a German palace during World War II, an English sunken manor build by a reclusive royal, an ancient well in Portugal constructed by the Knights Templar, and an underground bone chamber in Sweden. Each of The Secret Life's 19 chapters is about a place, but also a person or people whose passion and obsessions led them to create something magical and spectacular that survived, either in story or structure.
A beautifully written and photographed romp through some of the world's most secretive, seductive, and incredible places. In The Secret Life of Hidden Places, we're led on a global tour of the world's most amazing spaces and places--some hidden, others well known but secreted nonetheless--including manors, palaces, tunnels, rooms, staircases, and tombs. The author's lyrical prose, accompanies by captivating photographs, transports the reader to mysterious, alluring destinations--such as a mystically beautiful room made of amber last seen in a German palace during World War II, an English sunken manor build by a reclusive royal, an ancient well in Portugal constructed by the Knights Templar, and an underground bone chamber in Sweden. Each of The Secret Life's 19 chapters is about a place, but also a person or people whose passion and obsessions led them to create something magical and spectacular that survived, either in story or structure.
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Stefan Bachmann is a Swiss-American author of books and short stories. He was born in Colorado and spent most of his childhood in Switzerland, where he graduated from the Zürich University of Arts with degrees in music composition and theory. His debut, The Peculiar, was published to international acclaim when he was nineteen years old.
His work has gone on to be named a Publishers Weekly’s best book of the year, a VOYA Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award finalist, and a CYBILS Award finalist, among others. In 2017, he was chosen for the Aarhus 39, a selection of the best writers under 40 in Europe, presented at the International Hay Festival in Denmark. He has written for radio, film, opera, magazines and newspapers, and his work has been published in sixteen countries.
Stefan’s love of stories also lead him to work in the field of literacy and reading development. He is the co-founder of the Zürich-based non-profit Foundations in Literacy, the current co-president of Autillus - Swiss association of children’s authors and illustrators, and teaches creative writing at the Junges Literaturlabor in Zürich.
After stints in Berlin, Prague, and Tokyo, he currently lives and writes in a small town on the Dutch border, at the foot of a medieval castle, surrounded by books and plants.
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Stefan Bachmann is a Swiss-American author of books and short stories. He was born in Colorado and spent most of his childhood in Switzerland, where he graduated from the Zürich University of Arts with degrees in music composition and theory. His debut, The Peculiar, was published to international acclaim when he was nineteen years old.
His work has gone on to be named a Publishers Weekly’s best book of the year, a VOYA Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award finalist, and a CYBILS Award finalist, among others. In 2017, he was chosen for the Aarhus 39, a selection of the best writers under 40 in Europe, presented at the International Hay Festival in Denmark. He has written for radio, film, opera, magazines and newspapers, and his work has been published in sixteen countries.
Stefan’s love of stories also lead him to work in the field of literacy and reading development. He is the co-founder of the Zürich-based non-profit Foundations in Literacy, the current co-president of Autillus - Swiss association of children’s authors and illustrators, and teaches creative writing at the Junges Literaturlabor in Zürich.
After stints in Berlin, Prague, and Tokyo, he currently lives and writes in a small town on the Dutch border, at the foot of a medieval castle, surrounded by books and plants.
