America's Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings - Nostalgic Icons

"Interesting perspectives on covered bridges" according to TLK. This is a beautiful book, well-written with great photography. It is a book to return to, time after time to look at pictures and to learn from the practical and historical writing about covered bridges. The eye-catching photos will make this an ideal coffee-table book, but the wealth of information will sustain your interest for years.The authors have organized their book into "broadly conceived perspectives of the covered bridge as utilitarian objects, indicators of technological ingenuity and progress, obsolete nuisances, and nostalgic icons and symbols of the past." The book lives up to this daunting challenge and does so with enga. Best in Class Reference for Covered Bridges Reference books on covered bridges have been produced from the 1930s (when only a few people were interested) through today. A growing segment of the population has an interest in covered bridges now, due in part to the efforts of many previous authors, though most of the previous literature has been more oriented toward either the scenic value of the bridges or in providing images with a brief history or the locality details to encourage tourism of the bridges. Terry and Ron have achieved something rarely accomplished in this area by elevating the discussion on covered bridges to include much more information on truss types, terminolo. This is an excellent book for covered bridge enthusiasts who love the old Brian McKee This is an excellent book for covered bridge enthusiasts who love the old bridges. The author did a lot of research and had produced a superb account of them in this book. I highly recommend it!

For the past forty-five years his research has focused on China's frontier history and Chinese vernacular architecture with many books that celebrate these traditions. Terry E. In addition to his research and writings on the music of mainland Southeast Asia, he is the co-author of the popular textbook World Music: A Global Journey.Ronald G. Miller, in 1953 and has since visited

Each wooden bridge, whether still standing or long gone, has a story to tell about the nature of America at the time—not only about its transportational needs, but the availability of materials and the technological prowess of the people who built it. Many more were swept away by natural disasters and fires. Most of the contemporary photography is by master photographer A. Knapp tell the fascinating story of these bridges, how they were built, the technological breakthroughs required to construct them and above all the dedication and skill of their builders. An American icon, many covered bridges became obsolete and were replaced—others simply decayed and collapsed. Illustrated with some 550 historical and contemporary photos, paintings, and technical drawings of nearly 400 different covered bridges, America's Covered Bridges offers five readable chapters on the history, design and fate of America's covered bridges, plus related bridges in Canada. Miller and Ronald G. As many as 15,000 covered b

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