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The Book of Seconds: The Incredible Stories of the Ones That Didn't (Quite) Win
Contributor(s): Mason, Mark (Author)

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 ISBN: 1474608485     ISBN-13: 9781474608480
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Humor | Form - Trivia
- Reference | Trivia
- History
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.6" L (0.45 lbs) 224 pages
 
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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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