The Book of Seconds
The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didn't (Quite) Win
Published on 16. April 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4746-0848-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Book of Seconds reveals the exciting, intriguing and heroic runners-up who until now have been kept in the shadow of the firsts.
Did you know that the winner of the second Tour de France rode 25 miles on two flat tyres?
Or that the second crew to land on the Moon danced to a pop song in zero gravity?
Step forward all the nearly-men and nearly-women, the nearly skyscrapers, nearly-LPs and nearly deserts. Your time in the spotlight has come at last.
Did you know that the winner of the second Tour de France rode 25 miles on two flat tyres?
Or that the second crew to land on the Moon danced to a pop song in zero gravity?
Step forward all the nearly-men and nearly-women, the nearly skyscrapers, nearly-LPs and nearly deserts. Your time in the spotlight has come at last.
Reviews / Votes
Posterity celebrates pioneers and record-holders, but the people directly behind them have stories worth telling, too. This excellent little book fills us in -- Brian Viner * 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 -- Marcus Berkmann * THE SPECTATOR *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4746-0848-0 (9781474608480)
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Additional editions
E-Book
09/2018
1st Edition
Weidenfeld and Nicholson
€3.99
Available for download
Person
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.