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Ladataan... C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across AmericaTekijä: Geoff Williams
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This is an interesting book that tells a story of a little know race. It is a shame that this story has gone into obscurity since it shows amazing endurance. I am impressed that anyone could run from Los Angeles to New York. I found the details of the life during the race and colorful information regarding the runner's lives entertaining and insightful. I recommend the book to any running enthusiasts or historians. ( ) näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four black runners who encountered bigotry; Charles Hart, a sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his best days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband, father, and steelworker from St. Louis who broke away from his humdrum life and dared to do something different. Newspaper and magazine journalist Geoff Williams details this historic event and the colorful cast of characters involved, based on firsthand accounts of those who were there and interviews from many living descendants. C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race is a classic American story so astonishing and surreal that you have to hear it to believe it. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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