Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge
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Résumé
The Sydney Harbour Bridge, or "giant coat-hanger" as it's often called, took 1300 men eight years to build, using six million rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel. This book tells the step-by-step story in detail, revealing the problems, solutions, risks and celebrations.
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Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge by John Nicholson
The inside story of a national icon.
John Nicholson is an ex-architect turned author and illustrator of children's books. His particular interests are history, architecture and all kinds of invention, design and construction. He lives in the bush, not far from Melbourne. Many of his books have been shortlisted in the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards and three of them, A Home among the Gum Trees, The First Fleet and Fishing for Islands have won the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781865082585 |
| ISBN 10 | 1865082589 |
| Titre | Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge |
| Auteur | John Nicholson |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Allen & Unwin |
| Année de publication | 2001-08-01 |
| Nombre de pages | 32 |
| Prix | Runner-up for CBCA Book of the Year 2001 (Australia) |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |