Bøker i Rivers and Canals 2 Volume Set-serien

A distinguished consulting engineer and professor of civil engineering, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839-1907) specialised in canals, docks, and river works. This illustrated two-volume survey covers the design and construction of tidal and flood defences, canals, locks, and irrigation works. It is reissued here in the enlarged 1896 second edition.