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The Panama Canal by Elizabeth Mann
Category: History | 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
The Parthenon by Mary Beard
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. The 'looted' Elgin Marbles - in the British Museum, the Louvre, even Copenhagen - are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they?This engrossing book is the first of a small, occasional 'ser ...Show more
The Parthenon by Mary Beard
Category: Classics | Series: Wonders of the World Ser.
Praise for the previous edition: "Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history."-Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic"In her brief but compendious volume Beard] says that the more we find out about this mysterious structure, the less we know. Her book is esp ...Show more
The Sahara Desert 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 Wonders of the World: the Odyssey by Homer
Category: unmapped | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Homer\'s epic tells of the adventures of Odysseus, the mythological King of Ithaca and leader of the Trojan war, recounting the hero\'s wanderings and his eventual regaining of his kingdom.
Uluru: the World's Largest Monolith by Jennifer Hurtig
Category: Education | Series: Wonders of the World Ser.
Wonders of the World by Francesco Boccia (ed)
Category: Travel | Series: Wonders of the World
Man has never stopped to feel the need to demonstrate his creativity and genius, building throughout the world structures which seem of having become higher and higher, bigger and bigger through the ages. Following a detailed chronological order, this book goes from the Pyramids of Giza to the Parthenon ...Show more
Wonders of the World: Anna Karenina by L.N. Tolstoy
Category: unmapped | Series: Wonders of the World S.
The story of Anna Karenina, a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as a wife and turns to her lover Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences.
Wonders of the World: Don Quixote, Part One by Miguel De Cervantes
Category: unmapped | Series: Wonders of the World S.
The satirical romance of an eccentric knight-errant in La Mancha, central Spain. The novel follows the adventures of Don Quixote and his rustic companion, Sancho Panza.
Wonders of the World: Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: unmapped | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Based on the fable of a man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge,
Wonders of the World: The Divine Comedy Hell Part 1 by Dante Alighieri
Category: unmapped | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Dante (1265-1321) is one of the greatest of Italian poets, and his \\
Wonders of the World: the Aeneid by Virgil
Category: unmapped | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Describing the legendary origin of the Roman nation, this poem tells the tale of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who escaped with some followers after the fall of Troy and sailed to Italy. Here they settles and laid the foundations of the Roman empire.