London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing by Travis Elborough (Paperback, 2014)

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Binding : Paperback. Condition : New. Publication Date : 2014-02-06.

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A brilliantly entertaining look at just what happened when London Bridge was sold and shipped to America. 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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PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780099565765
eBay Product ID (ePID)176707562

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Book TitleLondon Bridge in America: the Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing
AuthorTravis Elborough
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages288 Pages

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Item Height198mm
Item Width130mm
Item Weight270g

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Title_AuthorTravis Elborough
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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