Timekeepers
How the World Became Obsessed With Time
by Simon Garfield
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Pub Date Dec 14 2018 | Archive Date Feb 08 2018
Canongate US | Canongate Books
Description
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 stop time in its tracks.
Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalise it and make it meaningful. It has two simple intentions:
Advance Praise
SUNDAY TIMES (London) CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
OBSERVER (London) SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
SUNDAY TIMES (London) CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
OBSERVER (London) SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781782113218 |
| PRICE | CA$23.95 (CAD) |
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