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Around the World in 80 Buildings
Series: Around the World in 80
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Where can you eat dinner under the sea? Which country has the most pyramids? Can a church become a swimming pool? Including a stunning central gatefold map that opens out to reveal where all 80 structures are located, Around the World in 80 Buildings is a...
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See moreExplore the world's most fascinating buildings - from castles to skyscrapers - from your own living room! Covers a huge range of manmade structures from deep underground to outer space. Includes a beautiful central gatefold that opens up to display all 80 featured structures and where they are located on a map.
Explore the world's most fascinating buildings – from castles to skyscrapers – from your own living room! Covers a huge range of manmade structures from deep underground to outer space. Includes a beautiful central gatefold that opens up to display all 80 featured structures and where they are located on a map.
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Where can you eat dinner under the sea? Which country has the most pyramids? Can a church become a swimming pool?
Including a stunning central gatefold map that opens out to reveal where all 80 structures are located, Around the World in 80 Buildings is a visual celebration of the incredible structures people have built throughout history and their cultural significance. From ancient wonders such as Stonehenge to bridges spanning countries, record-breaking rollercoasters, and hotels where even the beds are made of ice.
Discover a floating palace, a terracotta army, a cinema in a bank vault, and a building so tall that clouds form at the top!
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781803380506
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 14 March 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Welbeck Children's Books
Illustration: clr illus
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Lou Baker Smith
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 232.0mm
Height: 286.0mm
Weight: 560g
Pages: 72
About the Author
David Long is a highly acclaimed, internationally published author of non-fiction for both children and adults, whose engaging, imaginative and well-informed books reflect an unquenchable thirst for those events and personalities that illuminate the past. His book Survivors (Faber & Faber) won the Blue Peter Book Award 2017.
Lou Baker Smith is a freelance illustrator and designer, working in book publishing and packaging design. Her work is diverse in subject matter and technique, the common thread that runs through it is a love of colour, textures and layers.
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