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Terry E. Miller

America's Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings - Nostalgic Icons

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As many as 15,000 covered bridges were built in North America over the past 200 years. Fewer than 1,000 remain. In America's Covered Bridges, authors Terry E. Miller and Ronald G. Knapp tell the fascinating story of these bridges, how they were built, the technological breakthroughs required to construct them and above all the dedication and skill of their builders. Each wooden bridge, whether still standing or long gone, has a story to tell about the nature of America at the time—not only about its transportation needs but the availability of materials and the technological prowess of the people who built it.North American covered bridges we… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Knapp, Ronald G. / Ong, A. Chester (Fotogr.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8048-4265-5
  • EAN: 9780804842655
  • Produktnummer: 23724348
  • Verlag: Tuttle Pub
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H30.7 cm x B23.9 cm x D2.5 cm 1'610 g
  • Gewicht: 1610

Über den Autor


Terry E. Miller began visiting covered bridges with his father, Max T. Miller, in 1953 and has since visited more than 1,000 in the United States, Canada, Europe, and China, and researched the bridges of two Ohio counties from dusty handwritten journals. Miller spent his career teaching ethnomusicology at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, retiring in 2005. In addition to his research and writings on the music of mainland Southeast Asia, he is the co-author of the popular textbook World Music: A Global Journey.Ronald G. Knapp is a historical-cultural geographer at State University of New York at New Paltz, where he taught from 1968 to 2001. For the past forty-five years, his research has focused on China's frontier history and Chinese vernacular architecture with many books that celebrate these traditions. His book, Chinese Bridges: Living Architecture from China's Past introduced China's covered bridges to Western readers and has served as the model for America's Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings—Nostalgic Icons.

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