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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Simon Garfield
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Description for Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Paperback. A witty and entertaining journey through time from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; PDZ; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks. Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalise it and make it meaningful. It has two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782113218
SKU
V9781782113218
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Award. simongarfield.com
Reviews for Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining
The Sunday Times
Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Stuffed with fascinating material
Observer
A sort of museum between hard covers. Timekeepers is as good as pop history gets
Sunday Express
Time well spent . . . Simon Garfield has made his name as an author who can spin fascinating narratives out of subjects that seem, on the face of it, narrow to the point of being dull
Financial Times
Scholarly but jokey, with a magpie's appetite for glittering trivia, Garfield is as eager to amuse as to inform, and achieves both
Telegraph
An eclectic collection of explorations of our relationships with time . . . Very readable
The Times
Delightful
Sunday Telegraph
Delightful . . . Gloriously funny . . . Garfield has an astonishing capacity for meticulous research and a wonderful ability to select the best stories to entertain us
Daily Express
Engaging . . . Engrossing
Mail on Sunday
In this book, brilliant cultural historian Simon Garfield assembles a host of intriguing characters who have tried to bend time to their own rules, and questions how we came to be ruled by something so arbitrary
Elle
Garfield's anecdotal, science-friendly book explores the tyranny of time and our desire to control it
Saga
There could be no better guide than Simon Garfield for this journey into time and its meaning for our lives. From the assembly line to the French Revolution, he covers the quirks of the clock with insight and wry enthusiasm. A riveting, educational read
DANIEL PINK, author of Drive
The Sunday Times
Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Stuffed with fascinating material
Observer
A sort of museum between hard covers. Timekeepers is as good as pop history gets
Sunday Express
Time well spent . . . Simon Garfield has made his name as an author who can spin fascinating narratives out of subjects that seem, on the face of it, narrow to the point of being dull
Financial Times
Scholarly but jokey, with a magpie's appetite for glittering trivia, Garfield is as eager to amuse as to inform, and achieves both
Telegraph
An eclectic collection of explorations of our relationships with time . . . Very readable
The Times
Delightful
Sunday Telegraph
Delightful . . . Gloriously funny . . . Garfield has an astonishing capacity for meticulous research and a wonderful ability to select the best stories to entertain us
Daily Express
Engaging . . . Engrossing
Mail on Sunday
In this book, brilliant cultural historian Simon Garfield assembles a host of intriguing characters who have tried to bend time to their own rules, and questions how we came to be ruled by something so arbitrary
Elle
Garfield's anecdotal, science-friendly book explores the tyranny of time and our desire to control it
Saga
There could be no better guide than Simon Garfield for this journey into time and its meaning for our lives. From the assembly line to the French Revolution, he covers the quirks of the clock with insight and wry enthusiasm. A riveting, educational read
DANIEL PINK, author of Drive