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Binding: Hardcover
William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Book Club Edition
Copyright 1982
Pages: 441
Ex Library
Item Condition: This book includes the dust jacket. The dust jacket has some wear. The dust jacket has a protective cover. The protective cover flaps are taped to the outside protective cover to keep the dust jacket from coming off the book. There is a very small, very faint water stain on the bottom corner of pages 141-174. There are no bent or torn pages. This book was a library book and has cardholder, stamp, and reference sticker.
"The time: the Great Depression of 1931. The man: Charles C. Flanagan -- like Barnum, a flamboyant promoter. Flanagan's inspiration: to conduct a footrace that begins in the Coliseum in Los Angeles and ends in Central Park in New York. To attract athletes from all over the world, Flanagan promises $300,000 in prize money, and the winner to get $150,000. And so they come from England, France, Scotland, Germany, and all over the United States to join in the brutal three-thousand-mile odyssey of endurance and courage, of men and women battling the furies of nature and against each other."
