Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time by Simon Garfield

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

Simon Garfield

369 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
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Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator be...

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