Showing The Great Wall: From Beginning to End by William Lindesay

HardCover. Pub Date: November 2007 Pages: 176 Publisher: Sterling Publishing It is. Arguably the greatest feat of civil Engineering in History and indisputably the Earth's Largest single Cultural Relic: Begun DURING Written by Qin Dynasty (around 208 BC) and completed nearly 1.800 years later during the Ming Dynasty. the Great Wall of China spans more than 4.000 miles. At the dawn of the Beijing Olympics. the eyes of all the world are upon it. Two men who navigated every inch of the Wall have collaborated on a lavishly -illustrated tribute to this amazing structure. Michael Yamashita. an award-winning National Geographic photographer. spent a year shooting the Wall. its environs. and the people who live in its shadow. for the magazine. One ...