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 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.