The Tartarian Archive

How did they build these, and why have we stopped? The world's fairs. The buried ground floors. The maps that named an empire. Nine chapters on the nineteenth century, and every claim checkable at a named source. This book takes each question seriously and follows it to wherever the evidence actually goes — including, in several chapters, somewhere other than where you may have heard it goes. Vagueness would be a kind of flattery, and you did not buy this book to be flattered. What turns up is not a consolation prize. It is better material: Chicago lifting itself out of the mud on five thousand jackscrews, a steppe empire that really was erased, and a city of palaces raised in twenty-six months out of plaster and hemp.

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