
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 ...
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Timekeepers
How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Garfield, Simon
Kartoniert, 368 p.
w. num. photos and figs.
Sprache: Englisch
200 mm
ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-321-8
Titelnr.: 63913231
Gewicht: 255 g
Canongate Books (2017)
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Sarah Hall
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