Around the World in 80 Buildings

David Long is a highly acclaimed, internationally published author of non-fiction for both children and adults, whose engaging, imaginative and well-informed books reflect an unquenchable thirst for those events and personalities that illuminate the past. His book Survivors (Faber & Faber) won the Blue Peter Book Award 2017. Lou Baker Smith is a freelance illustrator and designer, working in book publishing and packaging design. Her work is diverse in subject matter and technique, the common thread that runs through it is a love of colour, textures and layers.

Vanished civilisations * Pyramids * FEATURE: Tools & technology * Going Underground * Monumental statues * Defensive structures * FEATURE: The builders * Palaces of power * Reaching for the sky * Religious structures * Coping with climate change * A material world * FEATURE: Change of use * Famous landmarks * Cars, ships and trains * Getting from A to B * FEATURE: Reuse & recycle * Places for pleasure * Life after death * Out of this world * What will we build next? Location list: Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Libya, Cambodia, Crete, Mexico, Sudan, USA, Egypt, UK, Italy, Croatia, China, Chile, Brazil, Syria, Morocco, France, Siberia, Spain, India, Hungary, UAE, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Russia, Sweden, Mali, Bolivia, South Africa, Maldives, Thailand, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Canada, Panama, Japan, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Antarctica, Outer space.