Lonely Planet – How Everything Works

The latest title in the popular “How Things Work” series will make the ordinary seem extraordinary. Featuring the beautifully detailed illustrations of James Gulliver Hancock, How Everything Works will take a close-up look at the world around us to examine well-known, everyday environments and reveal how all the various objects and machines found there operate.

Full-page gatefolds showcase large, dense scenes while smaller flaps can be opened to uncover the secrets of the latest gizmos and gadgets. Explore a home, a building site, a factory, a shopping mall, an office and a busy street; find out how a car, a computer, a conveyor belt and mobile phone work, and much more! 

Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers.

Features:

• Hard Cover, 24 pages
• A History of Things: watch as a street changes through time
• Down on the Farm: from tractors to combine harvesters and wind turbines
• At the Construction Site: mix cement, dig underground, and then look upward to cranes and skyscrapers
• In the Home: the inner workings of washing machines, lightbulbs and electricity
• At the Office: computers, photocopiers, air con
• Published by Lonely Planet
• Suitable for ages 6+

Dimensions: 28.2cm (l) x 1.7cm (h) x 25.9cm (w)