Edward Payson Weston's 3,100-mile walk from California to New York,
completed on 3 May 1910, was one of his great achievements, but
only one. It took him just 77 days. He was 71 years old. For half a
century Weston was one of the most famous people in the
English-speaking world, as the first age of international celebrity
unfolded. The godfather of the pedestrianism movement, he
criss-crossed Britain and America on foot earning fame, fortune and
notoriety in an athletic career that saw him complete some of the
most amazing endurance feats ever witnessed. In this entertaining
and wide-ranging book, co-authors Nick Harris, Helen Harris and
Paul Marshall, skillfully recreate a vanished world to tell one of
the most amazing stories in sporting history. Part social history,
part biography, part exposition of the seedy underbelly of
Victorian society, this is a work that draws in elements of
sporting genius, high stakes gambling, drug abuse, and marital
scandal. A Man in a Hurry is one man's flamboyant athletic journey
from the Gold Rush to the Jazz Age, the story of a dreamer, schemer
and ladies man who met with Presidents and royalty, crooks and
knaves. With its colourful detail, historical context and readable
style, this groundbreaking work is an important addition to the
sports literature canon.
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