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Voyaging the world's civil engineering wonders / John Laverick.

by Laverick, John.

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History Press, 2017.

Civil engineering.

Civil engineering -- History.

Canals -- History.

Waterways -- History.

9780750984362 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Civil engineering wonders

192 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm. x 26 cm.

1.The Panama Canal -- Its History, Construction and Operation -- 2.The Panama Canal Expansion Project -- 3.Civil Engineers in Defence of the Realm -- From Mulberry Harbour to Floating Nuclear Submarine Docks -- 4.Europe's Largest Ship Canal -- Once the Eiderkanal now the Kiel Canal -- 5.Reliving the Excitement of Travel on the World's First Liners -- 6.Restoring Nelson's Waterway -- Breathing Life into a Norfolk Broad -- 7.The Suez Canal -- 8.The Seven Wonders of Britain's Inland Waterways -- 9.Fortress Gibraltar -- 10.Crossing and Taming the Baltic Sea -- 11.The Restoration of the Kennet & Avon Canal -- Saved by £25 million National Lottery Grant -- 12.The impossible dream -- Britain's most ambitious ongoing canal restoration project.

"Examples of enduring feats of civil engineering endeavour can be seen around the world's seas and waterways, from the SS Great Britain to the Panama Canal. In this beautifully illustrated book, John Laverick offers an insight into the intriguing field of civil engineering, taking you on a journey that crosses three continents and three centuries, exploring extraordinary achievements including the artificial waterways of the Panama and Suez canals, floating concepts such as the concrete Mulberry harbours, the world's only rotating ship lift at Falkirk, a man-made island in the Baltic linking the crossings between two countries and the ambitious restoration of the Wilts & Berks Canal."--Back cover.

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