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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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
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
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
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 . ... Read more
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 . ... Read more