Brian Hayes’ “Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape” is a god among books. It is the purest most wonderful eye candy.
I hadn’t picked it up in years, but today my daughter, 4, started asking about utility poles on the way home from the park. So when we got home I pulled out “Infrastructure” and away we went. The writing is so fun and lively, and the kids loved relating what we were reading about to what we’d just seen. They had to assure me multiple times that they weren’t bored! It made my heart soar.
“Infrastructure” is out of print: a true tragedy.