Welcome to the w BZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. With the recent
bridge collapse in Baltimore, I'm reminded of a best selling book by Judith Duprey
called Bridges, A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans. Truly an amazing
history covering two thousand years of bridge development with spectacular photography that celebrates many technological
achievements in bridge building, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Golden Gate, from
the Zakon Bridge here in Boston to the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in England. The
book is as much about the personalities behind the bridges, the ingenious builders and
planners, and much attention is given throughout on the importance these bridges play in
terms of transportation and even culturally. You'll now be able to take a chronological
tour looking at the most significant bridges and spans in the world, again covering
thousands of years of architectural history. It's called Bridges, a History of the
World's Most Spectacular Spans. The author Judith Duprey. And that's another edition of
the book Club. WBZ, Boston's news radio