Patricia Brennan Demuth: Where Is the Great Wall?
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese died building it, earning the wall its nickname — the longest cemetery on earth. Through…