Bridges: Spanning the World

Building bridges across rivers, canyons, straits, and sea represents one of man's greatest endeavors. It has stretched human ingenuity, engineering, and material technology to their limits. Bridges have altered history by joining communities together, extending trade, and transporting water to villages and cities. This book looks at more than 200 bridges spanning the world and the centuries, including an Inca suspension bridge made from grass ropes
the mile-long Roman aqueduct at Caesarea
Italy's bridges in Venice
England's great Forth Bridge built for the railway
France's famous Millau Viaduct
Spain's Acueducto del Aguila
the awe-inspiring cantilever bridges built by railway engineers across major rivers in North America and India
and the world's longest suspension bridge at Kobe in Japan.