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Welcome to the w BZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. With the recent

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bridge collapse in Baltimore, I'm reminded
of a best selling book by Judith Duprey

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called Bridges, A History of the
World's Most Spectacular Spans. Truly an amazing

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history covering two thousand years of bridge
development with spectacular photography that celebrates many technological

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achievements in bridge building, from the
Brooklyn Bridge to the Golden Gate, from

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the Zakon Bridge here in Boston to
the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in England. The

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book is as much about the personalities
behind the bridges, the ingenious builders and

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planners, and much attention is given
throughout on the importance these bridges play in

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terms of transportation and even culturally.
You'll now be able to take a chronological

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tour looking at the most significant bridges
and spans in the world, again covering

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thousands of years of architectural history.
It's called Bridges, a History of the

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World's Most Spectacular Spans. The author
Judith Duprey. And that's another edition of

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the book Club. WBZ, Boston's
news radio