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The Book of Seconds

The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didn't (Quite) Win

Author: Mark Mason  

The Book of Seconds
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Fascinating stories and facts about lesser-known men, women and objects that came second.

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Fascinating stories and facts about lesser-known men, women and objects that came second.

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'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.

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Critic Reviews

“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 SPECTATOR

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About the Author

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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'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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Orion Publishing Co | Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published
16th April 2020
Pages
224
ISBN
9781474608480

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