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Architecture: A History in 100 Buildings by Dan Cruickshank
$25.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Interiors
Featuring over 200 photographs, 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 archit ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Treasures by Dan Cruickshank
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Dan Cruickshank travels through 36 countries in four and a half months to tell the story of civilisation through the world's greatest treasures Dan Cruickshank's quest is to tell the story of civilisation through the greatest of man's achievements. It will also be the story of his travels, and who and w ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Treasures by Dan Cruickshank
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
Dan Cruickshank travels through 36 countries in four and a half months to tell the story of civilisation through the world's greatest treasures. Dan Cruickshank's quest is to tell the story of civilisation through the greatest of man's achievements. It will also be the story of his travels, and who and ...Show more
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
$37.99 NZD
Category: Architecture & Interiors | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
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- ...Show more
The Country House Revealed: A Secret History of the British Ancestral Home by Dan Cruickshank
$70.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table
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, th ...Show more
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. The sex industry was, in fact, a very powerful force indeed, and ...Show more
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