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Title: Walls

Author: David Frye

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: mp3

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Release date: 08-21-18

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 123 ratings

Genres: Architecture


Publisher's Summary: With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed - to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone and with them effectively divide humanity: On one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves - rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America....