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Empire State Building by Elizabeth Mann
14.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wonders of the World S.
This is an illustrated story of when New York reached for the skies; the story of an American icon! It was 1929 and the race was on to put up the tallest building in the world. Less than two years later, the Empire State Building was completed and the race was over. This book tracks this wonder of moder ...Show more
Machu Picchu by Elizabeth Mann
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wonders of the World
This is the story of the amazing Incas and the building of their "City in the Clouds: Machu Picchu". The city is as astonishing as were its builders. Set between two mountain peaks in a remote, inaccessible area of the high Andes, this breathtaking city was never found by the Spanish Conquistadors and r ...Show more
The Great Wall by Elizabeth Mann
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Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Imagine a wall 30 feet high, a wall thousands of miles long, a wall that crossed deserts and climbed over impossibly jagged peaks, a wall that contained thousands of individual forts and towers, a wall that was guarded by a million soldiers, a wall that took over 200 years to build. This is the story of ...Show more
The Panama Canal by Elizabeth Mann
14.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wonders of the World
This is the illustrated story of how a jungle was conquered and the world made smaller! For the French in 1881 and then the Americans in 1903, it all seemed so simple: Panama was less than fifty miles wide. How difficult could it be to build a canal across it? The answer was "tragically difficult". Pana ...Show more
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