Unconventional builders /
Publication details: Chicago : J.G. Ferguson Pub. Co., ©1977.Description: 184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 x 32 cmISBN:- 0894340018
- 9780894340017
- NA203 .V36
Contents:
Summary: Discusses seventeen examples of unusual construction throughout history, including the Tower of Babel, the Globe Theater, igloos, log cabins, the Great Wall of China, and a lost city of the Incas.
Sir Christopher Wren -- Ireland's curious towers -- E-Temen-Anki -- Designs for the haunted house -- Machu Pichu -- The Cuckoo Construction Company -- Petra -- High Gothic -- The Great Wall of China -- Igloos -- Heorot -- The trouble with cabins and cottages -- The first houses -- Fouquet's folly -- Shakespeare's playhouse -- Jericho -- The fallen idol.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | NA 203 VAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0005707 |
Sir Christopher Wren -- Ireland's curious towers -- E-Temen-Anki -- Designs for the haunted house -- Machu Pichu -- The Cuckoo Construction Company -- Petra -- High Gothic -- The Great Wall of China -- Igloos -- Heorot -- The trouble with cabins and cottages -- The first houses -- Fouquet's folly -- Shakespeare's playhouse -- Jericho -- The fallen idol.
Discusses seventeen examples of unusual construction throughout history, including the Tower of Babel, the Globe Theater, igloos, log cabins, the Great Wall of China, and a lost city of the Incas.