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A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (Gollancz SF collectors' editions)

A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (Gollancz SF collectors' editions)

by HarryHarrison (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $16.37
Synopsis

A metal highway under the sea is no longer a dream. Captain Augustine Washington and his team of navvies are already driving the tunnel under the Atlantic in an heroic feat of construction. For Gus, a descendant of the infamous George Washington, executed as a traitor after the Battle of Lexington, this is the opportunity to redeem the family name. But his beautiful fiancee has been forced to end their engagement, and there is a ruthless and sinister plot to destroy the tunnel - and Gus himself...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 28 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 0575071346
ISBN 13: 9780575071346
Book Overview: * 'Superbly humorous...I recommend this for its wit and excitement' David Wingrove * A hugely enjoyable parallel-world novel set in the heyday of a British Empire that never lost its American colonies and is still driven by the spirit of Victorian enterprise and by a Victorian code of honour * An entertaining and rollicking adventure with a carefully thought-through and detailed background * 'Harry [Harrison] is the iconclast of the known universe' Philip K. Dick

Author Bio
Harry Harrison was born in 1925 and lived in New York City until 1943 when he joined the US army. After the war he became a commercial artist before turning to writing. He has lived in Mexico, the UK, Italy, Denmark, Spain and Ireland. He is best known for the Stainless Steel Rat books, the Bill, the Galactic Hero sequence and for Make Room! Make Room! And Star Smashers of the Galaxy.