[Read now] Running for Their Lives: The Extraordinary Story of Britains Greatest Ever Distance Runners
✿ Mark Whitaker ✿
| #3620148 in Books | 2012-04-01 | Format: International Edition | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.45 x1.26 x6.34l,.0 | File Name: 0224082582 | 368 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Forgotten Transcontinental Runners|By Rob Hardy|Chances are you have never heard of Arthur Newton and Peter Gavuzzi, even if you are fond of sports and even if you specialize in an interest in running sports. They were two of the most amazing runners ever, and because they did long distance running, and not ordinary marathons or track and field (to say nothing of football or||"A poignant account of unrecognized achievement. I shall find it hard to forget the two runners in vests and shorts who stand side by side on the dustjacket of this book" -- Bryon Rogers Spectator "Whitaker paints a compelling picture of a world in which the
In 1928 two extraordinary Englishmen competed in an unprecedented and fearsome event - a transcontinental road race across America that required them to run an average of 40 miles for 80 consecutive days. They were to become the most famous long-distance runners in the world: yet history has forgotten them. Peter Gavuzzi was a young working-class ship's steward, while Arthur Newton was a middle-aged intellectual who had taken up running to make a political point. Though...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Running for Their Lives: The Extraordinary Story of Britains Greatest Ever Distance Runners | Mark Whitaker.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
