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~40 min
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English
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History
Aesthetics
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Published 1966 SeaStar Books 13 views
ISBN
158717264X, 9781587172649
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Paperback
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Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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We cannot of course know when, where or how man first used a bridge, but many of our earliest hunter-gatherer ancestors must surely have had to range far and wide in their quests for food, fuel or shelter; and inevitably they must have encountered natural obstacles such as streams, rivers and chasms...

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Discusses the history of bridges from ancient times to the present and describes the building of various types of bridges.

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