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The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus) (Hardcover)
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The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus) (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R575
Discovery Miles 5 750
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Highly acclaimed author Neal Bascomb brings his peerless research
and fast-paced narrative style to a young adult adaptation of one
of his most successful adult books of all time, The Perfect Mile,
an inspiring and moving story of three men racing to achieve the
impossible -- the perfect four-minute mile. There was a time when
running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the
limits of human foot speed. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the
Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break
this barrier: Roger Bannister was a young English medical student
who epitomized the ideal of the amateur; John Landy the privileged
son of a genteel Australian family; and Wes Santee the swaggering
American, a Kansas farm boy and natural athlete. Spanning three
continents and defying the odds, these athletes' collective quest
captivated the world. Neal Bascomb's bestselling adult account
adapted for young readers delivers a breathtaking story of unlikely
heroes and leaves us with a lasting portrait of the twilight years
of the golden age of sport.
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