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Liberty's Torch - The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (Paperback)
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Liberty's Torch - The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 630
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The Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable
monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream.
But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by
myth. In reality, she was the inspiration of one quixotic French
sculptor hungry for fame and adoration. Inspired by descriptions of
the Colossus of Rhodes, the young Frederic Auguste Bartholdi first
envisioned building a monumental statue of a slave woman holding a
lamp that would serve as a lighthouse for Ferdinand de Lesseps's
proposed Suez Canal. But after he failed to win this commission,
and in the chaotic wake of the Franco-Prussian War, Bartholdi set
off for America, where he saw the perfect site for his statue:
Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. Before long, he was organizing
the construction of a massive copper woman in a Paris workshop.
Through spectacular displays of the statue's arm and torch in
Philadelphia at the 1876 World's Fair, and the statue's head at the
1878 Paris Exhibition, along with other creative fundraising
efforts, Bartholdi himself collected almost all of the money
required to build the statue. Meanwhile, he brought luminaries
including Gustave Eiffel, Victor Hugo, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph
Pulitzer, and Emma Lazarus into his scheme. Moving from the black
waters of the Nile to the revolution-torn boulevards of Paris, to
the muddy streets of New York, Liberty's Torch tells the story of
an artist, entrepreneur and inventor who fought against all odds to
create this wonder of the modern world.
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