中文简介：

桥梁既可以连接人与文化，提供通道和交流，也可以分隔它们。它们既稳定又脆弱，具有建筑风格和审美品质。许多古代神话甚至把桥描绘成连接远方世界的通道。一座桥往往代表了一个人或几个人的故事，他们有远大的理想和决心，不畏艰难险阻，追求改变。

本书介绍了50座各种类型的桥梁：伟大的经典之作，如老桥（威尔士）、查理大桥（布拉格）和金门（旧金山）；杂技演员在双子塔之间行走的钢丝（纽约）；被摧毁和重建的宝藏，如莫斯塔尔古桥（黑塞哥维那）；冰川裂缝之间的冰桥。这也是一本关于这些桥梁的故事书，讲述了它们的传说轶事，以及那些设计、建造和穿越桥梁的人的励志生活。

英文简介：

Bridges can both link people and cultures, providing access and communication, or divide them. They are both steady and fragile, have architectural style and aesthetic qualities. Many ancient myths even present bridges as passages between faraway worlds. More often than not, a bridge represents the story of a person or persons with a vision and determination to make a change, then pursuing it, despite any obstacles.

This book features fifty bridges of all description: great classics such as the Old Bridge (Wales), the Charles Bridge (Prague) and the Golden Gate (San Francisco) ; a precarious thread stretched between the Twin Towers by an acrobat (New York); treasures destroyed and rebuilt, like the Mostar Bridge (Herzegovina); a streak of frozen snow between the crevasses of a glacier. But it is also a book of stories that accompany these bridges: legends, anecdotes and the inspirational lives of those who designed, built and crossed them.