00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Garfield, Simon aut Verfasser/-in Timekeeper Obsession desire Timekeepers How The World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield Edinburgh Canongate 2017 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 begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks. 9781782113218 9781782113218 349 pages, illustrations