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- Author: Barbara Sousa
- Publisher: Abbott Press
- ISBN-10: 1458202909
- ISBN-13: 9781458202901
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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In the year 1868, in Brooklyn, young Jacob Knickerbocker is torn between two loves-his wife Nelly and building a bridge across a treacherous river. Employed as Scribe to a famous bridge builder, he has no idea that his journey through hell is about to begin.
Jacob is thrust into a world of steam-powered engines and political corruption. After quicksand is found under the river bed, he takes it upon himself to study caisson's disease as men descend nearly sixty feet beneath the surface. Despite the horrors of work, Jacob and Nelly are thrilled when she becomes pregnant. But Nelly and her newborn son die horribly in childbirth. Grief-stricken, Jacob creates an imaginary world, writing to his deceased wife in a secret journal. Drinking laudanum (opium), disillusioned and dissolute, he walks the streets of New York and disappears.
Will the disheartened Scribe return to his Brooklyn Bridge? How will his monumental endeavor find footing in those wild and turbulent waters?
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- Author: Barbara Sousa
- Publisher: Abbott Press
- ISBN-10: 1458202909
- ISBN-13: 9781458202901
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
In the year 1868, in Brooklyn, young Jacob Knickerbocker is torn between two loves-his wife Nelly and building a bridge across a treacherous river. Employed as Scribe to a famous bridge builder, he has no idea that his journey through hell is about to begin.
Jacob is thrust into a world of steam-powered engines and political corruption. After quicksand is found under the river bed, he takes it upon himself to study caisson's disease as men descend nearly sixty feet beneath the surface. Despite the horrors of work, Jacob and Nelly are thrilled when she becomes pregnant. But Nelly and her newborn son die horribly in childbirth. Grief-stricken, Jacob creates an imaginary world, writing to his deceased wife in a secret journal. Drinking laudanum (opium), disillusioned and dissolute, he walks the streets of New York and disappears.
Will the disheartened Scribe return to his Brooklyn Bridge? How will his monumental endeavor find footing in those wild and turbulent waters?
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