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Tunnel Tigers: A First-hand Account of a Hydro Boy in the Highlands
Patrick Campbell
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Description for Tunnel Tigers: A First-hand Account of a Hydro Boy in the Highlands
Paperback. A description of an elitist group of construction workers who drove tunnels beneath mountains and under rivers and harbours for subways, roads and hydroelectric schemes. The author was involved in this highly paid but very dangerous work for four years in Scotland and this is an account of his experience. Num Pages: 192 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BG; TNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200.
Tunnel Tigers is a colourful portrait of the off-beat characters who worked on Scottish hydro projects, and of the tensions that were created when men of various religious and ethnic groups shared the same space. Tunnel tigers are an elite group of construction workers who specialise in a highly paid but dangerous profession: driving tunnels through mountains or underneath rivers or other large bodies of water, in locations as far apart as Sydney and San Francisco. At the turn of the last century they tunnelled out the subways under New York and London; in ... Read more
Tunnel Tigers is a colourful portrait of the off-beat characters who worked on Scottish hydro projects, and of the tensions that were created when men of various religious and ethnic groups shared the same space. Tunnel tigers are an elite group of construction workers who specialise in a highly paid but dangerous profession: driving tunnels through mountains or underneath rivers or other large bodies of water, in locations as far apart as Sydney and San Francisco. At the turn of the last century they tunnelled out the subways under New York and London; in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842820728
SKU
V9781842820728
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-13
About Patrick Campbell
Patrick Campbell left his home and family run hotel in Donegal to work as a tunnel tiger in Scotland before emigrating to America. He was marketing communications manager for the World Trade Center until he retired in 1996, after a marketing career with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that lasted 35 years. He is a graduate ... Read more
Reviews for Tunnel Tigers: A First-hand Account of a Hydro Boy in the Highlands
Christine Goldbeck, author of A Tribute to O'Hara and Other Stories: Brilliant, Moving, Memorable ... Stories that stay with you for life. Eric McKeever, author Tales of the Mine Country Anthracite History: I found the book of absorbing interest and read it straight through in one sitting. Howard Crown, ... Read more