Books with title Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle

Look inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas. Packed with extraordinary illustrations, this history book for children covers everything from warship design to navigation. Biesty's incredible drawings slice through a man-of-war to explore every corner, from the crow's nest to the stinking hold. Packed with fascinating facts and gory details, the pages teem with sailors busy about their duties. Find out how gun crews fired a cannon, examine a surgeon's toolkit, and learn the best way to wriggle the maggots out of the ship's biscuits. Look out, too, for the stowaway on every page. He's the one with spiky hair and there's a reward for his capture!This absorbing book will have children - and adults - poring over every page. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War remains as entertaining as ever.

This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings.Whether it's a Spanish galleon or a medieval castle, each cross-section slice or exploded view reveals what's going on inside. See the people swarming inside the Empire State Building, the workers busy backstage at an opera house, and where the crew sleep on a jumbo jet. Included also are two impressive fold-outs showing an ocean liner and a steam train.There are lots of fun facts to be discovered, and curious details are highlighted and explained. Did you know one of the funnels of the Queen Mary liner was fake, and used for storing deckchairs? And in almost every scene there's the challenge... to find a man sitting on a toilet! With more than a million copies sold, Stephen Biesty's award-winning illustrated book is as fascinating today as it was when first published, in 1992. Incredible Cross-sections is the ultimate way to see how things work.

This picture book shows readers what goes on inside 18 of the world's largest buildings and machines. Each illustration is based on the actual plans or architects' drawings so that readers know they are looking inside real structures - not a figment of some artist's imagination. Packed around the cross-sections are facts about each diagram which include a medieval castle, a galleon, a coal mine, helicopter, steam train and space shuttle.

Take an incredible journey to 13th century Krak des Chevaliers and experience life inside a medieval castle. A horseman arrives with urgent news that the sultan's army is on its way to attack! Weave your way through the great halls, towers, turrets and passages as the message is passed on among the knights: 'Prepare for battle!' Breathtaking digital imagery takes you into the heart of the fortress. Meet the 'fighting monks', find out what it was like to be under siege in a medieval castle and see how everyday life was very different to your own. Eyewitness accounts and action-packed scenes turn discovering about castles into an edge-of-your seat adventure. Bring the past to life in your bedroom with the gigantic panoramic poster! It is brilliant for homework and school projects or just for fun.