8.2 /10 1 Votes
Language English Pages 344 OCLC 54001404 Genre Non-fiction Country United States of America | 4.1/5 Goodreads Publication date 2004 ISBN 0-618-56209-5 Originally published 2004 Page count 344 Publisher Mariner Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City Similar Neal Bascomb books, Running books, Non-fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The perfect mile
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It (2004) by Neal Bascomb is a non-fiction book about three runners and their attempts to become the first man to run a mile under four minutes. The runners are Englishman Roger Bannister, American Wes Santee, and Australian John Landy. The book's climax is Bannister's breaking of the record on May 6, 1954.
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Reception
The New York Times' review calls it an "enthralling book" and says Bascomb "expertly winds up the tension of the three men's many failed attempts to get closer to the magic mark, before Bannister wrote himself into legend first on a windy day at the Oxford University track".
References
The Perfect Mile Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA