The Lucky Bugger's Casebook - Tales of Serendipity and Outrageous Good Fortune (Paperback)

What connects the discovery of America, the creation of Coca Cola and the art book bought for GBP50 that turned out to contain original Picassos? That's right: sheer blind luck. No matter how meticulously things are planned, time after time the most important bits of life are the product of simple, random chance. In wonderfully witty style, Daniel M. Smith gives us the stories of inventors, Nobel Prize winners, scientists, actresses, escapees, engineers, kings, architects, pop stars, criminals, supermodels, tennis champions, opera singers and many more who have benefited from happy serendipity. From the Japanese trader who made fortune after a share price typo to the German novelist who lost his manuscript on a train, and ended up buying some fish wrapped in his own pages at the station, "The Lucky Bugger's Casebook" is a celebration of the type of unexpected good fortune we all dream of - just ask Sir Paul McCartney, who awoke one morning with the tune to 'Yesterday' having arrived in his head overnight.

General

Imprint:	Icon Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	October 2010
Authors:	Daniel Smith
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	211
ISBN-13:	978-1-84831-152-7
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Humour collections & anthologies Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84831-152-4
Barcode:	9781848311527

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