Vanished civilisations Pyramids FEATURE: Tools & technology Going Underground Monumental statues Defensive structures FEATURE: The builders Palaces of power Reaching for the sky Religious structures Coping with climate change A material world FEATURE: Change of use Famous landmarks Cars, ships and trains Getting from A to B FEATURE: Reuse & recycle Places for pleasure Life after death Out of this world What will we build next? Location list: Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Libya, Cambodia, Crete, Mexico, Sudan, USA, Egypt, UK, Italy, Croatia, China, Chile, Brazil, Syria, Morocco, France, Siberia, Spain, India, Hungary, UAE, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Russia, Sweden, Mali, Bolivia, South Africa, Maldives, Thailand, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Canada, Panama, Japan, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Antarctica, Outer space.
Explore the world's most fascinating buildings - from castles to skyscrapers - from your own living room! Covers a huge range of manmade structures from deep underground to outer space. Includes a beautiful central gatefold that opens up to display all 80 featured structures and where they are located on a map.
David Long is a highly acclaimed, internationally published author
of non-fiction for both children and adults, whose engaging,
imaginative and well-informed books reflect an unquenchable thirst
for those events and personalities that illuminate the past. His
book Survivors (Faber & Faber) won the Blue Peter Book Award
2017.
Lou Baker Smith is a freelance illustrator and designer, working in
book publishing and packaging design. Her work is diverse in
subject matter and technique, the common thread that runs through
it is a love of colour, textures and layers.
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