Bridges
Subtitle: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: September 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781554070992
Subjects: Reference; History; Bridge Engineering; Architecture; Technology & Industrial Arts; Engineering - Civil; Social History; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture / General; Bridges - History; Bridges; Design and construction
First sentence: We cannot of course know when, where or how man first used a bridge, but many of our earliest hunter-gatherer ancestors must surely have had to range far and wide in their quests for food, fuel or shelter; and inevitably they must have encountered natural obstacles such as streams, rivers and chasms.