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The ghost runner : the tragedy of the man they couldn't stop : the true story of John Tarrant
- Title
- The ghost runner : the tragedy of the man they couldn't stop : the true story of John Tarrant / Bill Jones.
- Author
- Jones, Bill (Producer of documentary films)
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Mainstream Publishing, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GV1061.15.T37 J66 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 352 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared. A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as "the ghost runner," John Tarrant, the extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid L17 expenses. When he wanted to run, he was banned for life. His amateur status had been compromised. Forever. Now he was fighting back, gate-crashing races all over Britain. No number on his shirt. No friends in high places. Soon he would be a record-breaker, one of the greatest long-distance runners the world had ever seen.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- ISBN
- 9781845966065
- 1845966066
- LCCN
- 2011486756
- OCLC
- ocn742956641
- 742956641
- SCSB-1636033
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library