A stunning new information book from best-selling author/illustrator Peter Kent, that presents some of the most spectacular and challenging building projects in history. From the ancient Egyptians, through the medieval cathedral-builders, the makers of the first suspension bridges and skyscrapers, to the complexities of a modern airport, the book traces the ways in which we have learnt to build ever more complex structures. Behind each project there is a story, of individuals determined to turn their vision into reality. These stories of enormous human ingenuity and struggle, and often of heroism too.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Oxford University Press .

Peter Kent has written and illustrated over 50 fiction and non fiction books and has won awards in the Netherlands and the UK including The Scientific American Young Readers Book Award (1998) and American National Council of Social Studies Award (1998). He lives in Norwich