- Publisher: OH Editions
- Year: 2022
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 136pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 206x146mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781914317569
- Product code: 538413
Bridges of the World
New Hardback Illustrated
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Illustrated with the authors’ detailed drawings, this book tells the stories behind 50 of the world’s most fascinating bridges, from San Francisco’s Golden Gate to London’s Tower Bridge. They include feats of engineering such as the Forth Railway Bridge, objects of beauty and romance such as Venice’s Bridge of Sighs, historic bridges such as the Roman Pont du Gard in southern France, and naturally occurring bridges of rock or ice.
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Fifty bridges from all over the world to be crossed on foot or with one's imagination.
Throughout history bridges have been used as a way to link people, places and cultures. Whether a natural arch or a man-made feat of engineering, bridges can be both beautiful and functional, each in a unique relationship with the land around it. And the stories that accompany these bridges are just as fascinating: the legends, anecdotes and the inspirational lives of those who designed, built and crossed them.
This book celebrates some of the world's best bridges of all description: great icons such as the Tower Bridge in London, the Charles Bridge in Prague and the Golden Gate in San Francisco; a precarious thread stretched between the Twin Towers by an acrobat; treasures destroyed and rebuilt, like the Mostar Bridge in Herzegovina; and a streak of frozen snow between the crevasses of a glacier.
Throughout history bridges have been used as a way to link people, places and cultures. Whether a natural arch or a man-made feat of engineering, bridges can be both beautiful and functional, each in a unique relationship with the land around it. And the stories that accompany these bridges are just as fascinating: the legends, anecdotes and the inspirational lives of those who designed, built and crossed them.
This book celebrates some of the world's best bridges of all description: great icons such as the Tower Bridge in London, the Charles Bridge in Prague and the Golden Gate in San Francisco; a precarious thread stretched between the Twin Towers by an acrobat; treasures destroyed and rebuilt, like the Mostar Bridge in Herzegovina; and a streak of frozen snow between the crevasses of a glacier.
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Giancarlo Ascari, Pia Valentinis, Trans. Katherine Gregor
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206x146mm
OH Editions
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Hardback
Bridges
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