Description
Discover probably the most fantastic guy-made wonders, from Stonehenge to Burj Khalifa, with this unprecedented catalog of probably the most well-known and interesting homes and monuments created by means of people.
Man-Made Wonders of the World includes a vary of systems from homes to monuments, statues, and bridges, together with the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam.
It opens with a foreword by means of Dan Cruickshank after which takes the reader on a continent-by means of-continent adventure, exploring and charting the inventions, ingenuity, and creativeness hired by means of other cultures to create iconic homes such because the Nice Pyramid of Giza. This actually international method finds how people tackled identical demanding situations, corresponding to holding the enemy out, in massively other portions of the arena, from the Nice Wall of China to the shielding partitions of Imperative American towns. Illustrations give an explanation for how the systems have been constructed, at the same time as causes quilt the historical past, structure, and distinctive tales at the back of their development.
Featuring breathtaking photographs, Man-Made Wonders of the World is an entire birthday party of the arena people have constructed over heaps of years.
