Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook10 hours
C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America
Written by Geoff Williams
Narrated by Robertson Dean
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International
Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including
twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to
win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's
farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't
let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from
Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four black runners who encountered
bigotry; Charles Hart, a sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his
best days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband,
father, and steelworker from St. Louis who broke away from his humdrum
life and dared to do something different.
Newspaper and magazine journalist Geoff Williams details this historic
event and the colorful cast of characters involved, based on firsthand
accounts of those who were there and interviews from many living
descendants. C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race is a classic American story so astonishing and surreal that you have to hear it to believe it.
Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including
twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to
win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's
farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't
let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from
Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four black runners who encountered
bigotry; Charles Hart, a sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his
best days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband,
father, and steelworker from St. Louis who broke away from his humdrum
life and dared to do something different.
Newspaper and magazine journalist Geoff Williams details this historic
event and the colorful cast of characters involved, based on firsthand
accounts of those who were there and interviews from many living
descendants. C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race is a classic American story so astonishing and surreal that you have to hear it to believe it.
Author
Geoff Williams
Geoff Williams OAM, AM is a pollination ecologist, conservation biologist and entomologist with a PhD from the University of New South Wales, and a Research Associate of the Australian Museum. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his contributions to science and biodiversity conservation. He is the author of The Invertebrate World of Australia’s Subtropical Rainforests (CSIRO Publishing, 2020) and The Flowering of Australia’s Rainforests: Pollination Ecology and Plant Evolution (CSIRO Publishing, 2021).
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Reviews for C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race
Rating: 3.7272727545454543 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
11 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an interesting book that tells a story of a little know race. It is a shame that this story has gone into obscurity since it shows amazing endurance. I am impressed that anyone could run from Los Angeles to New York. I found the details of the life during the race and colorful information regarding the runner's lives entertaining and insightful. I recommend the book to any running enthusiasts or historians.