The Bridge
The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Published on 1. December 2006
384 pages
978-1-74176-069-9 (ISBN)
Description
The definitive story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's most amazing engineering feats - a structure that has become a national icon.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NSW
Australia
File size
15,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-74176-069-9 (9781741760699)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright info
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 Closing the arch
- 2 A bridge too far
- 3 Bradfield's big plans
- 4 The first sod
- 5 Work starts
- 6 The price of progress
- 7 Tenders
- 8 Building the bridge
- 9 Characters and calamities
- 10 Design controversy
- 11 Lennie Gwyther's great adventure
- 12 Lang robs the bank . . . de Groot steals the show
- 13 The people's bridge
- 14 Bridge lives
- Bridge facts
- Picture section
- Endnotes
- Illustration credits
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
