Travis Elborough

London Bridge in America (eBook, ePUB)

The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448181674
• Artikelnr.: 37912469