An Olympian Feast: 1896-1948

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An Olympian Feast: 1896-1948
Hal Higdon (Author)

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This is author Hal Higdon from Runner’s World offering you some information about this, my latest book, “An Olympian Feast.” It is a work in progress. I need to be absolutely certain that everyone knows this before entrusting Amazon.com with their 99 cents. You are getting only the first half of a complete work: the Games from Athens in 1896 to London in 1948. But at least the price is right.

Here’s what you’ll receive in this excerpt from “An Olympian Feast.” Beginning with the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens in 1896 and continuing through the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London this past summer, there have been 30 four-year Olympiads, featuring 27 Olympic Summer Games. (Three Games were cancelled during World Wars I and II.) This segment of “An Olympian Feast” will carry you through the Games of the XIV Olympiad in London, England. Your 99 cents thus buys you the Introduction plus the first dozen chapters.

I was inspired to write “An Olympian Feast” while watching the Games in London last summer. As those Games continued, I blogged about some of my own Olympic experiences. I have run in eight Olympic Trials and have attended Five Games: four times in the summer, one time in the winter. More than that, I also have visited many of the Olympic cities, competing in track meets in Athens, Stockholm, Berlin, Rome and Melbourne to name a few. And over the years, I have known and written about many Olympic athletes from Billy Mills to Frank Shorter to Jim Ryun to Grete Waitz, even cross-country skier Bill Koch. “An Olympian Feast” will feature 30 chapters on 30 different Olympic Games (three of them winter). I hope you enjoy this preview of my Olympic writing. I will continue to release additional segments of my book over the next several months, aiming to finish before spring.

Let me know what you think about “An Olympian Feast” by writing me at RoadrunnerPress@comcast.net,or by posting to my Facebook page, Hal Higdon’s Marathon.

• Rank: #182311 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-12-12
• Released on: 2012-12-12
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1