Author: Brown, David J.
Paperback; Illustrated
Motorbooks International
ISBN: 0760312346

Everyone has walked, driven or ridden across at least one bridge in their time -- most likely without even considering the bridge as more than a mean from point A to point B. This stunning visual presentation, filled with photographs and illustrations depicting the world's greatest bridges, explains the manners in which laborers, engineers and architects have surmounted the problem of spanning the seemingly impassable from ancient times to the 21st century. A brilliantly written text explains in understandable terms the physics of different bridge types, while fascinating histporiesdescribe the hows and whys behind the world's most recognizable structures.