Awesome Engineering: Tunnels

(Hardback, Illustrated edition)

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A guide to landmark achievements in engineering

Follow the developments of tunnels, as they have gone deeper underground, have travelled further and helped us transport people, energy and goods through engineering skill, design and ambition.

Get to grips with the mind-boggling advances that have been made in engineering. Find out about awe-inspiring buildings and technology. he books in the Awesome Engineering series are filled with impactful artwork, diagrams and explanations that make the awesome feats of engineering easy to understand.

Bright and bold artwork, alongside clear explanations and diagrams, guide you through a chronology of landmark engineering achievements from around the world.

Perfect for readers aged 9 and up.

Contents:

Going Underground

Thames Tunnel

New York City Subway

Holland Tunnel

Seikan Tunnel

Channel Tunnel

Oresund Tunnel

Laerdal Tunnel

Boston Big Dig Project

Smart Tunnel

Hadron Collider Tunnel

Gotthard Base Tunnel

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Author Bio

Sally Spray is an author of children's non-fiction books. She studied Early Years Education, then an MA in Children's Literature, and worked as a teacher before becoming an art director in children's publishing. Sally lives in the Cotswold countryside, and enjoys daily chats with her chickens, daughters and sometimes her husband, the illustrator Mark Ruffle. Her mission is to find out loads of interesting, really hard to understand stuff and pass it on to her readers as simply and concisely as possible.