Where Is The Great Wall? by Patricia Brennan Demuth

Where Is the Great Wall? : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780448483580 : 0448483580 : 05 Feb 2015 : 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 the story of the wall, Patricia Brennan Demuth is able to tell the story of China itself, the rise and...... Mehr