ID | 000177 |
Call Number | 030/CHA |
Title Proper | 100 Wonders of the World |
Other Title Information | The finest treasures of civilization and nature on five continents |
Language | ENG |
Author | Challacombe, Stephen |
Publication | New Jersey, Chartwell Books, 2004. |
Description | 208p Orange Spine |
Note | This book reveals one hundred wonders of today's world and takes you on a journey of discovery of these great treasures of our civilization of nature. |
Note | Preface America -Machu Picchu -Nazca -Havana -Galapagos -Itza -Teotihuacan -Iguacu Falls -Patagonia -Pan-American Highway -Hawaii -Manhattan -Niagara's cliffs -American dead sea -Messa Verde -Grand Canyon National park -Golden gate bridge -Sequoias National Park -Hearst Castle Europe -Chambord -Eiffel tower -Palace of the Sun King -Lascaux caves -Chatres Cathedral, Notre Dame -Mont-St.-Michel -Stonehenge -Westminster Abbey -Edinburgh Castle, Scotland's Royal Mile -Green hopes, Greenland -Iceland -Drottningholm Castle -Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow -St.Petersburg -St.Sophia's Cathedral, Novgorod, Russia -Krakow -Belvedere Palace, Vienna -Benedictine monastery of Melk -Prague and the Charles bridge -Dresden's merry Zwinger -Sans Souci -Chalk cliffs, Isle of Rugen -Jewel of Hanseatic League -Cathedrals of commerce, Hamburg -Wattenmeer national Parks -Cologne Cathedral, Germany -Bavaria's rococo jewel: the Wieskirche -Schloss Neuschwanstein -Monastic library of St.Gallen -Glacier express, Switzerland -Batalha monastery -Gaudi's sermon in stone, Barcelona -El Escorial -Moorish Cordoba -Alhambra, Granada -Doric columns in Segesta -Pompeii -Rome, Vatican -Florence -Venice -Milan -Rila monastery, Bulgaria -Meteora monasteries -The Acropolis, Athens -Hagia Sophia Asia -Taj Mahal -Mount Everest -Mahabalipuram -Lahore -Palace of the Dalai Lama, Lhasa -Great wall of China -Forbidden city, Beijing -China's clay army, Xian -Mount Fuji, Japan -Shinto shrines, Kyoto -Forbidden city of Vietnamese emperors in Hue -Angkor Wat, Cambodia -Emerald Buddha, Bangkok -Borobudur, Java -Samarkand, Uzbekistan -Shibam -San'a' - Pearl of Arabia -Mecca -Second wonder of Ephesus -Pamukkale -Baalbek pillars -Damascus -Aleppo, Syria -Jerusalem -Dead sea -Petra Australia -Uluru or Ayers rock -Sydney -Great Barrier Reef Africa -Pyramids of Giza -Ramses II and Abu Simbel -Thebes: city of hundred gates -Sahara -Fez: Mecca for Maghrib -Kilimanjaro -Ngorongoro Crater -Victoria falls |
Standard Number | 0785818898 |
Price. Qualification | Rs.700(Hb) |
Classification Number | 030 |
Key Words | Curiosities and wonders ; Landforms ; Monuments ; UOI - Monuments ; Engineering |