The Great Wall of China |
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Author:
| Slavicek, Louise Chipley |
Series title: | Arbitrary Borders Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4381-2141-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
Publisher: | Facts On File, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Chelsea House |
Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $42.00 |
Book Description:
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Not one but many walls, this line of fortifications stretches 1,500 miles across northern China. Successive invasions of China by northern nomads proved the wall to be of little military value, but it has come to be symbolic of efforts to wall out one's e
Not one but many walls, this line of fortifications stretches 1,500 miles across northern China. Successive invasions of China by northern nomads proved the wall to be of little military value, but it has come to be symbolic of efforts to wall out one's e