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Empire State Building by Elizabeth Mann
Category: History | 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
Great Pyramid by Elizabeth Mann; Laura Lo Turco (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Wonders of the World Book Ser.
Here's the story of the Great Pyramid and the people who built it. In the author's telling, the Old Kingdom comes alive: a nation of farmers living on the green edge of a harsh desert with a king who was a god in life and in death. Tens of thousands of farmers left home each year to chisel hard stone w ...Show more
Machu Picchu by Elizabeth Mann
Category: History | 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
Madam Bovary: Wonders of the World by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Fiction | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Flaubert's heroine, Emma, is a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. The book created a sensation when it was published - the author was prosecuted for offending public morals and later aquitted.
Mount Everest by Lisa M. Bolt Simons
Category: Education | Series: Natural Wonders of the World (Paperback Set Of 8) Ser.
Earth is an incredible planet. This series takes readers up close to some of the most beautiful places our world has to offer. Learn all about the geological and biological history of each wonder, and what it's like to visit those wonders today. Book jacket.
Piazza San Marco by Iain Fenlon
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
The Piazza San Marco is the most famous townscape in the West. This book is the first to consider it as a coherent whole, as a theatre in which the whole of Venetian history took place, to which it can serve as a highly evocative introduction. Piazza San Marco is a dynamic open space organically connect ...Show more
The Amazon Rainforest by Rebecca Kraft Rector
Category: Education | Series: Natural Wonders of the World (Paperback Set Of 8) Ser.
Earth is an incredible planet. This series takes readers up close to some of the most beautiful places our world has to offer. Learn all about the geological and biological history of each wonder, and what it's like to visit those wonders today. Book jacket.
The Colosseum by Mary Keith; Beard Hopkins
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Wonders of the World
Imperial Rome was a warrior state. The Colosseum (opened in A.D. 80) was Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among th ...Show more
The Great Barrier Reef by Rebecca Kraft Rector
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Natural Wonders of the World (Library Bound Set Of 8) Ser.
Earth is an incredible planet. This series takes readers up close to some of the most beautiful places our world has to offer. Learn all about the geological and biological history of each wonder, and what it's like to visit those wonders today. Book jacket.
The Great Barrier Reef by Rebecca Kraft Rector
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Natural Wonders of the World (Paperback Set Of 8) Ser.
The Great Wall by Elizabeth Mann
Category: History | 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