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Mark Mason
Book of Seconds [EPUB ebook]
The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didn’t (Quite) Win

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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.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781474608497 ● Publisher Orion ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6465796 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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