Walls: a History of Civilization by David Frye ( epub) torrent

Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye

Requirements: .ePUB reader, 8.7 MB

Genre: Non-Fiction > General

Overview:

In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history’s greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga—one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live.

With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed—to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out