The Book of Seconds
The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didn't (Quite) Win
$32.31
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2020
Summary
‘Winning is everything’, so they say. But actually second can be thrilling, intriguing, heroic and pure. You may not have heard of John Landy, Juerg Marmet or ‘You Better Run’, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth knowing about. They are, respectively, the second man to run a sub-four-minute mile, the leader of the second team to conquer Everest, and the second video played on MTV.
THE BOOK OF SECONDS will tell the stories of the nearly-men and nearly-women, not to mention…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474608480 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474608485 |
| Author: | Mark Mason |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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Posterity celebrates pioneers and record-holders, but the people directly behind them have stories worth telling, too. This excellent little book fills us in
Posterity celebrates pioneers and record-holders, but the people directly behind them have stories worth telling, too. This excellent little book fills us in - DAILY MAIL
[D]one with such verve and humour and telling so many good stories that you succumb to its manifest charms with a simple sigh of pleasure - THE SPECTATORAbout The Author
Mark Mason
Mark Mason is a lover of trivia and a compulsively obsessive hunter for those fascinating facts that slip down the back of life’s sofa. He lives in Suffolk.
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