From Here to There

The Story of How We Transport Ourselves and Everything Else

Hp Newquist (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2017
Viking Books for Young Readers (Verlag)
978-0-451-47645-6 (ISBN)

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Need food? Water? Land? A place to live? Survival depends upon motion. For thousands of years people have invented ways to move faster, farther, and more comfortably. Their inventions -- shoes, skis, the rudder, the wheel, engines, rockets--had an enormous impact on how and where human beings lived and thrived. With lively prose and super-cool photos, HP Newquist takes readers on a journey through transportation history. He makes stops along the way to raise and answer interesting questions such as: Why were the Vikings such successful sailors? (Think "keel.") Or what did horse-and-carriage gridlock bring about? (Hint: "The Tube.") Or what newfangled invention meant a big change for women in terms of freedom and fashion? (We're talking two wheels...) Or when will your next book order arrive by drone? (Sooner than you might think!)

HP Newquist is the author of more than twenty books, including Invention & Impact: The Human Body, The Book of Chocolate, The Great Brain Book, a National Science Teachers Association and Children’s Book Council Outstanding Science Book, and The Book of Blood, an American Association for the Advancement of Science award finalist. Other titles include Here There Be Monsters; This Will Kill You; and The Way They Play. Read more about him at www.newquistbooks.com. The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum and research complex. Founded in 1846, it includes 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park, and nine research facilities. Its vast collections house 138 million artifacts, specimens, and works of art, which represent our nation’s rich heritage, art from across the globe, and the immense diversity of the natural and cultural world. Learn more at www.si.edu.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Smithsonian: Invention & Impact ; 2
Sprache	englisch
Maße	248 x 249 mm
Gewicht	754 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Naturwissenschaft / Technik
ISBN-10	0-451-47645-X / 045147645X
ISBN-13	978-0-451-47645-6 / 9780451476456
Zustand	Neuware