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Neal Bascomb

The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus)

The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus)

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Highly acclaimed author Neal Bascomb brings his peerless research and fast-paced narrative style to a young adult adaptation of one of his most successful adult books of all time, The Perfect Mile, an inspiring and moving story of three men racing to achieve the impossible -- the perfect four-minute mile.

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier: Roger Bannister was a young English medical student who epitomized the ideal of the amateur; John Landy the privileged son of a genteel Australian family; and Wes Santee the swaggering American, a Kansas farm boy and natural athlete.

Spanning three continents and defying the odds, these athletes' collective quest captivated the world. Neal Bascomb's bestselling adult account adapted for young readers delivers a breathtaking story of unlikely heroes and leaves us with a lasting portrait of the twilight years of the golden age of sport.



Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Bascomb, Neal
Published: 04/05/2022
Publisher: Scholastic Focus
ISBN: 9781338628463
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.67w x 1.26d
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