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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
by: Deborah Cadbury

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 609
EAN: 9780007163052
ISBN: 0007163053
Label: HarperPerennial
Manufacturer: HarperPerennial
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: July 05, 2004
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Studio: HarperPerennial
Sales Rank: 107066

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- Wow!
The series was brilliant, and I really looked forward to reading the book - and, for once, I was not disappointed!

Ms. Cadbury should feel proud about her achievement. The book is very well written, and the information conveyed in such a relatively short space (only about 50 pages for each 'wonder') is rich, detailed and extremely interesting - and should prove interesting for everyone! She draws together tales from the labourers, from the supervisors, from the finaciers, and from the relatives of those involved with the, often, super-human projects to produce a truly fascinating book.

I don't normally go for historical books, but this is probably one of the best exeptions to that rule. All I can say is, "thank you mum ... Read More:

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- "I came, I saw, I was conquered..."
Deborah Cadbury had a difficult task with this book. How do you take seven examples of tremendous engineering/construction feats and condense each one into 40-50 pages....and still get across to the reader the richness and complexity of each story? Well, Ms. Cadbury has managed to do it. She gives enough details so that you can understand how difficult each of these projects were. She also includes plenty of "human interest" information, so we learn about some of the engineers involved in these projects and how their obsession with work, in several cases, affected their health and even shortened their lives. The author also talks about some of the financiers behind these projects (and some unscrupulous business practices).But Ms. Cadbury doesn't ... Read More:

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