[PDF.76it] A Man in a Hurry: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Edward Payson Weston, the World's Greatest Walker

A Man in a Hurry: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Edward Payson Weston, the World's Greatest Walker

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 | #1087445 in Books |  2012-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x1.25 x5.50l, | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A well-researched, thoroughly enjoyable biography...|By Reader of History|This is a fascinating biography of a unique athlete whose name has long since been forgotten, but who at one time commanded the attention of a half-million well-wishers in New York City, who greeted him upon the completion of his extraordinary walk from the West coast, across the US.

The book i| |"This is a story that has everything including love, drugs, money and celebrity as well as sporting excellence, and has been superbly put together by the co-authors." -- Sports Journalists' Association

"Spectacularly entertaining" -- Brian Phil

For half a century, Edward Payson Weston was one of the most famous people in the English-speaking world as the first age of international celebrity unfolded. The godfather of the pedestrianism movement - a sport that took the Victorian world by storm - he criss-crossed Britain and America on foot earning fame, fortune and notoriety in an athletic career that saw him complete some of the most amazing endurance feats ever witnessed.

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