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Item Details
Title:
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LONDON BRIDGE IN AMERICA
THE TALL STORY OF A TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING |
By: |
Travis Elborough |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£14.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0224096257 |
ISBN 13: |
9780224096256 |
Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 February, 2013 |
Pages: |
288 |
Description: |
In 1968 the world's largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles? And why did Robert P McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it? Why did he ship it to waterless patch of the Arizonan desert? Did he even get the right bridge? This title deals with these questions. |
Synopsis: |
In 1968 the world's largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles? And why did Robert P. McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it? Why did he ship it to a waterless patch of the Arizonan desert? Did he even get the right bridge? To answer these questions, it's necessary to meet a peculiar cast. It includes: Fleet Street shysters; Revolutionary Radicals; Frock-coated industrialists; Disneyland designers; Thames dockers; Guinness Book of Records officials; The odd Lord Mayor; Bridge-building priests; Gun-toting U.S. sheriffs; An Apache Indian or two. And a fraudster whose greatest trick was to convince the world he ever existed. Roll up, then, for the story of one of the strangest events in Anglo-American relations. Curious, clever and sharp, this is history to delight in. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
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Returnable |
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