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Timekeepers

Paperback • 2017 • English

Timekeepers

By Simon Garfield

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About the book

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to sto...Show more

Biography and non-fiction prose

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ISBN

9781782113218

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

Timekeepers

Format

Paperback

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