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  • The English House

    A History In Eight Buildings - The Sunday Times Bestseller

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester. It’s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver, ultimately a synagogue. It’s also the story of – among others – a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth, a block of flats in London’s East End, and what Ideal Home’s magazine described in 1926 as Britain’s ‘first ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Spitalfields

    The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty – the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and much more.In Spitalfields, one of Britain's best-loved historians tells the stories of the streets ... Leer más

    $22.09 USD

  • Man-Made Wonders of the World

    de DK, Smithsonian Institution ...
    Series series DK Wonders of the World
    Discover the most incredible man-made wonders, from Stonehenge to Burj Khalifa, with this unparalleled catalog of the most famous and intriguing buildings and monuments created by humans.Manmade Wonders of the World features a range of structures from buildings to monuments, statues, and bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam.It opens with a foreword by Dan Cruickshank and then ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Brunel

    The Man Who Built the World

    de Steven Brindle ...
    A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being.Brunel's ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Cruickshank’s London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    'The perfect guide to the hidden history of London's streets.' BBC History MagazineIn Cruickshank's London, Britain's favourite architectural historian describes thirteen walks through one of the greatest cities on earth. From the mysterious Anglo-Saxon origins of Hampstead Heath, via Christopher Wren's magisterial City churches, to the industrial bustle of Victorian Bermondsey, each walk explores ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Soho

    A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING.One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied London history as he guides us around the Soho of the last five hundred years. We learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became the city's bohemian quarter and why it was once ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Skyscraper

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    Series Libro 8 - The Landmark Library
    Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction – metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding – it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high-rise architecture, and many of the tenets of Modernism.Cruickshank reflects on the extraordinary ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • London's Sinful Secret

    The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London's Georgian Age

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands.In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Dan Cruickshank’s Bridges

    Heroic Designs that Changed the World

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    Dan Cruickshank’s personal, passionate and learned journey into the very awe-inspiring architectural icons which have transformed culture, society, industry and landscapes throughout the world – bridges.Bridges define places. Imagine San Francisco without the Golden Gate Bridge, Manhattan without the Brooklyn Bridge, or Sydney without Sydney Harbour Bridge.Not only this, but they are spectacles of ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

  • The Country House Revealed

    A Secret History of the British Ancestral Home

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    Spanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the Palladian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse, with over 300 rooms and frontage of 600 feet, the imperial exuberance of Clandeboye, through to the ebullient vitality of Lutyens' Marshcourt, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Architecture

    A History in 100 Buildings

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    Narrado por Dan Cruickshank ...

    Completo

    11 hora 59 minutos

    This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings.Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture.His selection ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The London Nobody Knows

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    Narrado por Dan Cruickshank ...

    Completo

    13 minutos

    Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub, a Victorian music hall, a Hawksmoor church or even a public toilet in Holborn in which the attendant kept goldfish in the cisterns. He was drawn to the corners of the city where 'the kids swarm like ants ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD