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London Bridge in America
The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing|
8,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Vintage Digital |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 07.02.2013 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781448181674 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 288 |
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Beschreibungen
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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