Mega Builds

A$37 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

From YouTube sensation Fred Mills, a globetrotting look inside the planet's biggest engineering challenges, and what they tell us about our future Discover the incredible, fact-packed new book shining a light on the world's biggest engineering challenges, and what they tell us about our future. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2026 'A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book.' - Mark Cooper-Jones, author of This Way Up by the Map Men 'Reveals the feats shaping the 21st century.' - Chris Broad, bestselling author of Abroad in Japan --- Modern engineering is rewriting the rulebook and revolutionising how we live. In Mega Builds, Fred Mills - the founder of global construction platform The B1M - takes you inside ten of the most extraordinary engineering projects that are reshaping our modern world. From a 170km-long smart city in Saudi Arabia, to Japan's levitating railway and France's bold quest for limitless energy, Mills delivers an eye-opening tour of the biggest engineering challenges set to change the world as we know it. By the end of this book, you'll learn: Why the world's biggest city has been built in the worst place imaginable. Where the vision of a single ruler in the desert is rewriting our understanding of what's possible. What drives us to build ever-higher buildings and design ever-faster trains. And above all, how the dizzying scale of human imagination will inform the future of the man-made world. Written in Fred's si

• Binding: Hardcover

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