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Tunnel Tigers

- A First-hand Account of a Hydro Boy in the Highlands
Af: Patrick Campbell Engelsk Paperback

Tunnel Tigers

- A First-hand Account of a Hydro Boy in the Highlands
Af: Patrick Campbell Engelsk Paperback
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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 the 1940s and 1950s they were involved in a score of huge hydroelectric tunnels in Pitlochry and the Highlands of Scotland. They continue with their dangerous craft today in various locations all over the world.

Many of these daring men were born in north west Donegal, Ireland, where the tunnel tigers were viewed as local folk heroes because they had the bravado to work in dangerous conditions that few other working men could endure.

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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 the 1940s and 1950s they were involved in a score of huge hydroelectric tunnels in Pitlochry and the Highlands of Scotland. They continue with their dangerous craft today in various locations all over the world.

Many of these daring men were born in north west Donegal, Ireland, where the tunnel tigers were viewed as local folk heroes because they had the bravado to work in dangerous conditions that few other working men could endure.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 192
ISBN-13: 9781842820728
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1842820729
Udg. Dato: 30 nov 2004
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 130mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Luath Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 30 nov 2004
Forfatter(e): Patrick Campbell
Forfatter(e) Patrick Campbell


Kategori Konstruktionsteknik


ISBN-13 9781842820728


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 192


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 130mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 30 nov 2004


Oplagsdato 30 nov 2004


Forlag Luath Press Ltd

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