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Book of Seconds : The Incredible Stories of the Ones That Didn't (Quite) Win by Mark Mason (2020, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group, The Limited
ISBN-101474608485
ISBN-139781474608480
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038387130
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameBook of Seconds : the Incredible Stories of the Ones That Didn't (Quite) Win
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
SubjectReference, Encyclopedias, Trivia, History
TypeNot Available
AuthorMark Mason
Subject AreaSports & Recreation, Reference
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight7.2 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2024-403310
ReviewsPosterity celebrates pioneers and record-holders, but the people directly behind them have stories worth telling, too. This excellent little book fills us in
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal032.02
Intended AudienceTrade
Synopsis'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 the nearly-skyscrapers, nearly-moon missions and nearly-whales: the people and things who until now have sat in the shadow of the firsts. This book will bring them gloriously into the limelight hitherto denied to them., '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 the nearly-skyscrapers, nearly-moon missions and nearly-whales: the people and things who until now have sat in the shadow of the firsts. This book will bring them gloriously into the limelight hitherto denied to them.
LC Classification NumberAG244
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