What happens when you want to get to the other side of a mountain, when
you can’t climb it? How do you get to the other side of a lake or a
river, when you don’t have a boat? How do you get a boat from one body
of water to another, when there’s land in between?
Read the next few pages, and you will find out what people in different
parts of the world do when nature gets in the way.
DONNER PASS
“California or Bust!” That’s what some of the early pioneers shouted as they traveled westward in wagon trains. The pioneers had to find a pass through a range of mountains called the Sierra Nevada…
CITY OF CANALS
In Venice, Italy, the streets are canals. So instead of seeing cars, you can see flat-bottomed boats called gondolas. Venice is built on a cluster of small mud islands. The canals twist around the…
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
> “London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, > > London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady. The London Bridge that was forever \”falling down” in the nursery rhyme was built of…
BUILDING A TUNNEL
> Workers of France and Italy finished building the Frejus Tunnel in > 1871. You can dig a little tunnel with your hands, or with a spoon, or with a shovel. But how would you dig a tunnel through a…
