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London Bridge in America - The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing

English · Paperback

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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.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 existedRoll 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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Travis Elborough

Summary

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?

Product details

Authors Travis Elborough, Elborough Travis
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 06.02.2014
 
EAN 9780099565765
ISBN 978-0-09-956576-5
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories

London, Greater London, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Bridges, c 1960 to c 1969, Bridges

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