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Description:On the cover: "Randy Morrow finds adventure on the Pan-American Highway"From the book jacket: "All the friendly nations of North, Central and South America are now cooperating to build a great international highway from Juneau in Alaska to Ushuaia at the very tip of South America. Some of the road is already in existence, paralleling the Pacific Ocean through the muskeg of Canada, the beaches of our western states, the jungles of Central America and the mountains of South America.Randy Morrow, his brother Sam, and Mr. Morrow, their father, set forth for a motor trip down the great highway. Mr. Morrow is in search of the civil-engineering story of the century, and takes the boys along. They talk to lean, clear-eyed engineers whose very calm confidence suggests high adventure in exciting places. The travelers see huge bridges being flung across mighty chasms, and mighty mountains blasted and gouged until they yield a place for man to move with machines.The traveling Morrows learn at first hand the adventure that comes to engineers who fight the wilderness, the desert, the unrelenting reluctance of an ancient, undisturbed nature to give way to man.All mid-teen boys, and many girls, as well, will find in these pages that truly THERE'S ADVENTURE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING!"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with There's Adventure in Civil Engineering. To get started finding There's Adventure in Civil Engineering, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 187

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Popular Mechanics Company

Release: 1958

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Description: On the cover: "Randy Morrow finds adventure on the Pan-American Highway"From the book jacket: "All the friendly nations of North, Central and South America are now cooperating to build a great international highway from Juneau in Alaska to Ushuaia at the very tip of South America. Some of the road is already in existence, paralleling the Pacific Ocean through the muskeg of Canada, the beaches of our western states, the jungles of Central America and the mountains of South America.Randy Morrow, his brother Sam, and Mr. Morrow, their father, set forth for a motor trip down the great highway. Mr. Morrow is in search of the civil-engineering story of the century, and takes the boys along. They talk to lean, clear-eyed engineers whose very calm confidence suggests high adventure in exciting places. The travelers see huge bridges being flung across mighty chasms, and mighty mountains blasted and gouged until they yield a place for man to move with machines.The traveling Morrows learn at first hand the adventure that comes to engineers who fight the wilderness, the desert, the unrelenting reluctance of an ancient, undisturbed nature to give way to man.All mid-teen boys, and many girls, as well, will find in these pages that truly THERE'S ADVENTURE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING!"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with There's Adventure in Civil Engineering. To get started finding There's Adventure in Civil Engineering, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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