LoveReading4Kids Says
David Long and Lou Baker Smith take us around the world and across millennia in a book that looks at stunning buildings, in the process revealing lots about the cultures and people who built them. It makes our world feel huge, full of variety and beauty, but shows that humans, wherever and whenever they lived, have always shared imagination, determination, and technical ingenuity.
Double page spreads present buildings with similar purposes – for example, defensive structures, palaces, places of worship – text explaining their history and passing on fascinating facts (the Forbidden City in Beijing has 8,886 rooms). A special gatefold in the middle opens into a world map so that we can see exactly where these buildings are located.
Readers are also informed about tools and technology, about the best builders in history, and encouraged to think about what they might like to see built, or build themselves, in the future.
Andrea Reece
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Around the World in 80 Buildings Synopsis
Where can you eat dinner under the sea? Which country has the most pyramids? Can a church become a swimming pool?
Including a stunning central gatefold map that opens out to reveal where all 80 structures are located, this book is a visual celebration of the incredible structures people have built throughout history and their cultural significance. From ancient wonders such as Stonehenge to bridges spanning countries, record breaking rollercoasters and hotels where even the beds are made of ice.
Discover a floating palace, a terracotta army, a cinema in a bank vault, and a building so tall that clouds form at the top!
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.
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9781803380506 |
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14th March 2024 |
| Author: |
David Long |
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Lou Baker Smith |
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Welbeck Children's Books an imprint of Hachette Children's Group |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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72 pages |
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Around the World in 80 |
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About David Long
Writer and historian David Long is the author of the acclaimed Animals' VC: For Gallantry and Devotion and more than twenty other non-fiction books on a wide range of historical subjects. Jet the Rescue Dog the first of several titles for younger readers, was published by Faber in 2014. He lives in Suffolk and has two teenage sons.
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