Lovelock - Softcover
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- PublisherRandom House New Zealand
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1869414004
- ISBN 13 9781869414009
- BindingPaperback
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LOVELOCK - A Novel
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ISBN 13: 9781869414009
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. The legend of Jack Lovelock, the New Zealander who won the 1500 metres at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. 1999 reprint of the original 1986 publication - a classic Kiwi sporting tale. Seller Inventory # 002766
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Lovelock
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Book Description Condition: Good. A Rhodes scholar at Oxford, a successful doctor, and the runner who has been called the first modern athlete, Jack Lovelock broke the world record to take the gold medal in the 1500 metres event at the Berliln Olympic Games in 1936. Lovelock's unexpected vicotory, against the 'greatest field of millers ever assembled', has all the hallmarks of a great discovery. He treated his body as a human laboratory. Yet a mystery remains. In 1949 at the age of 39, Jack Lovelock was killed when he fell beneath a train in New York. The riddle of his death, following the strange circumstances of a life masked by silences and disguise, becomes the key to McNeish's quest for the 'real' Lovelock - a man who, in the author's words, 'covered his traces as adroitly as he ran'. Based on research in five countries, Lovelock, nominated for the 1986 Booker Prize, is a rare and exciting book.James McNeish lives on New Zealand. He is the author of more than 20 books and plays. Currently the National Library Research Fellow, he is preparing a major study of New Zealand Rhodes Scholars at Oxford in the 1930s. foxing 408 pages. Seller Inventory # 1336496
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