Books with author Alan C Jenkins

Equip your English as a Second Language students to achieve their best at Cambridge Lower Secondary and beyond. This step-by-step, stretching approach provides students with the skills and experience necessary to succeed in the new Cambridge Checkpoint test and at the next stage of their education, including Cambridge IGCSE, by providing clear guidance, exposure to practice test questions, and structured writing exemplars.

The Netherlands has been created by its people in a centuries-long fight against the sea. Their ancient pledge to build a "golden band" of defenses to shut out the sea has grown into a fantastic project for reclaiming hundreds of thousands of acres of rich land from the seabed itself. In this exciting and authoritative book for young people, Alan C. Jenkins tells the story of the pioneers: of Jan Adriaanszoon, who used windmills to drain huge lakes, and Cornelius Lely, who built the great Barrier Dam. He describes in vivid, nontechnical terms the vast feats of engineering undertaken in reclaiming the Zuyder Zee and now, in the Delta Plan, the most ambitious scheme of all. Illustrated with photographs, maps and old prints.