A great review from Marcus Berkmann in The Mail read it online here and enjoy a fine picture of Gerald Harper as Adam Adamant.
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The Guardian: A review
Read an almost embarrassingly lovely review of London Bridge in America by Ian Sansom in The Guardian here gu.com/p/3dh53/tw
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London Bridge: reviewed in Icon magazine
Another wonderful review this time in the March issue of architectural magazine, Icon. The review is in the latest print issue, not online.
London Bridge: reviewed in the The Sunday Times
A marvellous review from Ian Critchley in The Sunday Times (paywall to read).
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article1204260.ece
Article in The Observer: A trip to see London Bridge in Arizona
A trip to see London Bridge … in Arizona
In 1971 Robert P McCulloch bought London Bridge and shipped it to a small desert town. But, as our writer finds, the pre-Victorian masterpiece is very much at home on the Colorado River in the heart of Mojave County…
Read the full article at The Guardian/Observer website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/feb/03/arizona-london-bridge
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London Bridge book: the vinyl mix
Here’s a vinyl mix that takes you lucky listener on a journey from London Bridge, to the deserts of the USA in the capable hands of, among others, Tommy Steele, Spectrum, Bread, Nat King Cole, Lorne Greene and some terribly trendy chaps on London’s Carnaby Street.
Find out more about the book:
www.amazon.co.uk/London-Bridge-Am…=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3
London Bridge in America: Out February 7th 2013
Coming soon, “London Bridge in America: the tall story of a transatlantic crossing” (Jonathan Cape, February 2013)
In 1968 London Bridge 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 Arizona? Did he even get the right bridge?
London Bridge in America is the story of one of the oddest events in Anglo-American history, and a gloriously entertaining insight into Britain, America and the so-called special relationship both then and now. It also includes a cast of Fleet Street shysters, stiff-lipped bureaucrats, Disneyland designers, Thames dockers, Guinness Book of Records officials, the odd Lord Mayor, a megalomaniac entrepreneur, gun-toting US sheriffs and an Apache Indian or two.
Listen to the audio trailer:
A colourful, witty and quirky keyhole history, this is a story it’s hard to believe, let alone forget.
Pre-order on Amazon
Or just wait and buy it at your local bookshop.
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