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049			_aCARIBET
050			_aTG15 _bF73 2024
100			_aFrancis, Gavin _9303113
245			_aBridge between worlds: _ba brief history of connection. / _cGavin Francis. _htxt
264			_aEdinburgh : _bCanongate Books, _c2024.
300			_a274 p. : _bill. ; maps ; plans ; _c22 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediaded _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aDepartments: Approach 1 -- 1980’s -- Chapter One. Bridges of Union: Tweed, UK 9 -- Chapter Two. Bridge of Home: Forth, Scotland 15 -- 1990’s -- Chapter Three. Bridge of Possibility: Thames, England 27 -- Chapter Four. Bridge of Vitality: Vltava, Czechia 36 -- Chapter Five. Bridge of Immortality: Tiber, Italy 46 -- Chapter Six. Bridge of Freedom: Venice Lagoon, Italy 55 -- Chapter Seven. Bridge of Division: Zambezi, Zambia 64 -- Chapter Eight. Bridge of Poetry: East River, USA 71 -- Chapter Nine. Bridge of Home: Forth, Scotland 80 -- 2000’s -- Chapter Ten. Bridge of Vertigo: Golden Gate, USA 89 -- Chapter Eleven. Bridge of Defence: Urubamba, Peru 100 -- Chapter Twelve. Bridge of History: Hellespont / Çanakkale Boğazi, Türkiye 108 -- Chapter Thirteen. Bridge of Conquest: Kabul, Pakistan 119 -- Chapter Fourteen. Bridges of Partition: Indus, India 127 -- Chapter Fifteen. Bridge of Peace: Xiaohe, China 141 -- Chapter Sixteen. Bridge of Commerce: Singapore 147 -- Chapter Seventeen. Bridge of Force: Murray, Australia 154 -- 2010’s -- Chapter Eighteen. Bridge of Home: Forth, Scotland 165 -- Chapter Nineteen. Bridge of Balance: Wang Chhu, Bhutan 172 -- Chapter Twenty. Bridge of Immensity: Yenisei, Russia 178 -- Chapter Twenty-One. Bridge of Occupation: Jordan, Palestine 189 -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Bridges of Empire: Neretva / Miljacka / Drina, Bosnia 205 -- 2020’s -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Bridge of Reconciliation: Foyle, Northen Ireland 219 -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Bridges of Innovation: Rhine, Switzerland 225 -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Bridges of Cooperation: Kattegat, Scandinavia 230 -- Exit 243 -- Thanks 251 -- List of Illustrations 254 -- Selected Reading 257 -- Notes on Sources 258 -- Index 265 --
520			_a"In a world increasingly preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection, allowing the flow of goods, people and ideas. Bridges are among our grandest physical structures with the power of transforming lives and economies, but we also stand (or fall) upon the simple arch of bones in our feet. Text is a bridge between writer and reader, and conversation builds bridges of understanding between minds. Dr Gavin Francis has spent his life fascinated by the power of bridges to improve human connection. In The Bridge Between Worlds he examines bridges both actual and metaphorical, on a journey through more than twenty countries, across four decades of travel. From Rome's Ponte Sant'Angelo to Brooklyn, Victoria Falls to London, Singapore to Siberia, this thought-provoking book reflects on connections between nations and between individuals. Francis demonstrates what the building of bridges has meant to our civilisation, how crossings can enrich our lives, and the price we pay when we tear them down"--Publisher's description.
650		0	_aBridges _965390 _xHistory
650		0	_aBridges _965390
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