The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge [Audiobook] download free by Professor Gay Talese
- Listen audiobook: The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
- Author: Professor Gay Talese
- Release date: 2014/4/18
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781620406663
- Rating: 9.91 of 10
- Votes: 147
- Review by: Amora Pollock
- Review rating: 9.08 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/4
- Duration: 2H12M58S in 256 kbps (35 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-29
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, MP3, AIFF, FLAC, MPC, WAV (compression RAR, TZ, ZIP, AZW3, TGZ, ACE, XZ)
- Total pages original book: 175
- Includes a PDF summary of 15 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M10S (3 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening of this marvel of human ingenuity and engineering, he chronicled the human drama of its completion-from the construction workers high on the beams to the backroom dealing that displaced whole neighborhoods to make way for the bridge. Now in a new, beautifully packaged edition featuring dozens of breathtaking photos and architectural drawings, The Bridge remains both a riveting narrative of politics and courage and a demonstration of Talese's consummate skills as a reporter and storyteller. His memorable narrative will help celebrate the bridge's fiftieth anniversary and captivate a new generation of readers.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Local History, History Of The Americas, Bridges, History Of Engineering & Technology, Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building, Motor Cars
- Download servers: Google Drive, Mediafire, Racaty, MEGA, 4Shared, SendSpace, FreakShare, JumpShare, FileServe. Compressed in RAR, TZ, ZIP, AZW3, TGZ, ACE, XZ
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 46.85 USD
- Dimensions: 226x284x25mm
- Weight: 1,179g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
Vote:
