Bridges. A history of the world's most spectacular spans

摘要

Two decades after her first bridges book was published, this new edition by Judith Dupre offers an excuse to revisit the subject and generate a whole host of new content. The first thing that strikes you about this book, which is billed as a 'twentieth anniversary edition', is the awkward format. My initial thought, as I unwrapped the publication, was why on earth someone would choose an elongated portrait format - very tall and very thin - for presentation of a subject matter which lends itself so naturally to a landscape format? Rest assured, the inside pages do indeed use the landscape format to full effect, yet this disconnect between the cover and the inside grated and I found myself wondering why on earth they had not bound it along the short edge, which would have eliminated all the awkward handling required in one fell swoop.