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

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

Riassunto

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?

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• Autori: Travis Elborough, Elborough Travis
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.02.2014
• EAN: 9780099565765
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956576-5
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; London, Greater London, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Bridges, c 1960 to c 1969, Bridges