9798199868921 - the copper & the iron: a novel of eiffel, liberty, and paris | 1881-1889 (beyond his story we stand, band 78) von mcgilbourne, michael (5 Ergebnisse)
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The Copper & the Iron: A Novel of Eiffel, Liberty, and Paris | 1881-1889 (BEYOND HIS STORY WE STAND)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Novel of Eiffel & Liberty Paris 1881-1889 The Copper and the IronYou are the end point of an unbroken chain of survival. Every person who came before you - through plague, war, famine, and flood - lived long enough to pass forward what was necessary for you to exist. You did not begin when…you were born. You began when humanity began. Everything that happened between that beginning and this moment is not the past in any abstract sense. It is the story of the making of you.Paris and New York. 1881-1889. Two structures. Two continents. One engineer. 18,000 iron pieces. 214 copper crates shipped across the Atlantic. The Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty - the two most recognized structures on earth - built by the same hands. The man whose name they carry never drove a single rivet.The Copper and the Iron asks what it meant to be inside that moment. Not as Eiffel. Not as Bartholdi. But as the colorist who mixed the copper tone by lamplight for four months and never saw the finished statue - and the girl who sold ten thousand images of a tower she was afraid to climb.- What do you know when you hold an image of something you have never fully seen - What does it cost to make something beautiful that carries someone else's name - What is the difference between the image and the thing The facts are extraordinary enough.- Eiffel's armature for Liberty was revolutionary: the copper skin hangs on a flexible iron skeleton built to move with wind and heat. The birth of the curtain wall - the structural principle behind every modern skyscraper.- 300 workers. No safety lines. 300 meters of height. 26 months. One fatality - off duty.- The Protestation des Artistes called the tower a disgraceful column of bolted metal. Maupassant signed it. He ate lunch at the tower restaurant weekly.- Liberty arrived in New York harbor reddish-orange - the color of new copper. The green came later. No one who built her ever saw her as the world knows her.History is not a sequence of dates. It is billions of lives lived forward through a present as urgent as your own. The smell of mineral pigment dissolving in water at six in the morning. Copper hammered over wood - high, ringing, almost musical. Iron at 276 meters in October, Paris far below, the wind pressing against your chest. They built something that is still asking us questions.For homeschooling families: You are already doing the most important thing - putting the story of humanity directly into your children's hands. The Beyond His Story We Stand series was written for you. Not a textbook. Not a syllabus. A story your child will not want to put down - that leaves them asking the questions only wonder produces.The Copper and the Iron - Beyond His Story We Stand series.The hands are in the iron. The color is in the print. Neither carries a name. Both are yours.
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A Novel of Eiffel & Liberty Paris 1881-1889 The Copper and the IronYou are the end point of an unbroken chain of survival. Every person who came before you - through plague, war, famine, and flood - lived long enough to pass forward what was necessary for you to exist. You did not begin when y…ou were born. You began when humanity began. Everything that happened between that beginning and this moment is not the past in any abstract sense. It is the story of the making of you.Paris and New York. 1881-1889. Two structures. Two continents. One engineer. 18,000 iron pieces. 214 copper crates shipped across the Atlantic. The Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty - the two most recognized structures on earth - built by the same hands. The man whose name they carry never drove a single rivet.The Copper and the Iron asks what it meant to be inside that moment. Not as Eiffel. Not as Bartholdi. But as the colorist who mixed the copper tone by lamplight for four months and never saw the finished statue - and the girl who sold ten thousand images of a tower she was afraid to climb.What do you know when you hold an image of something you have never fully seen?What does it cost to make something beautiful that carries someone else's name?What is the difference between the image and the thing?The facts are extraordinary enough.Eiffel's armature for Liberty was revolutionary: the copper skin hangs on a flexible iron skeleton built to move with wind and heat. The birth of the curtain wall - the structural principle behind every modern skyscraper.300 workers. No safety lines. 300 meters of height. 26 months. One fatality - off duty.The Protestation des Artistes called the tower a disgraceful column of bolted metal. Maupassant signed it. He ate lunch at the tower restaurant weekly.Liberty arrived in New York harbor reddish-orange - the color of new copper. The green came later. No one who built her ever saw her as the world knows her.History is not a sequence of dates. It is billions of lives lived forward through a present as urgent as your own. The smell of mineral pigment dissolving in water at six in the morning. Copper hammered over wood - high, ringing, almost musical. Iron at 276 meters in October, Paris far below, the wind pressing against your chest. They built something that is still asking us questions.For homeschooling families: You are already doing the most important thing - putting the story of humanity directly into your children's hands. The Beyond His Story We Stand series was written for you. Not a textbook. Not a syllabus. A story your child will not want to put down - that leaves them asking the questions only wonder produces.The Copper and the Iron - Beyond His Story We Stand series.The hands are in the iron. The color is in the print. Neither carries a name. Both are yours. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
