Bridges are not only a metaphor for the passage of ideas and opportunity. For hundreds of years, they have been efficiently connecting people, places and things that were once separated. So why not celebrate famously important bridges from around the world? Colorful pen and ink drawings chronologically immortalize those who designed, engineered, and built these architectural marvels. From Britain to Brazil, this great engineering adventure offers insight into the tedious steps taken to construct industrially innovating bridges.

2014 Pépite du livre d'art, 2017 USBBY Outstanding International Book List.

Didier Cornille is a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts du Mans in France.

France. Originally published in French as Tous les Ponts sont dans la Nature by Actes Sud in 2014. English translation by Yolanda Stern Broad published in the United States by Princeton Architectural Press in 2016.