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Flanagan’s Run
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Artikel-Nr:
9781094015835
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.04.2020
Seiten:
0
Autor:
Tom Mcnab
Gewicht:
363 g
Format:
155x142x46 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Tom McNab has experienced success as Olympic coach, prize winning novelist, and technical director of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire. One of the world's leaders in sport, he has coached international athletes, the British Olympic Bobsleigh team, and England's silver medal-winning squad in Rugby's 1992 World Cup. In the same year, he was awarded the British Coach of the Year. Tom has written several bestselling novels, including Flanagan's Run, which reached number one on the bestseller list, and in 1982 he won the Scottish Novelist of the Year award. A commentator for ITV and Channel 4, a freelance journalist for the Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Times, and Independent, Tom's talents have no bars.
During the Depression, the ebullient American entrepreneur Charles Flanagan assembles two thousand runners from all corners of the earth to run from Los Angeles to New York for the prize of $150,000. Flanagan's Trans-America runners face three thousand miles, across the Mojave desert and the frozen Rockies, running a daily average of fifty miles for three months. The American sports establishment, however, is desperate to crush what it sees as a professional challenge to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Every day is therefore a struggle for survival, for Flanagan himself as well as the runners. Flanagan's Run is an epic tale and a testimony to the strength of the human spirit.