{"product_id":"9781338628463","title":"The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Highly acclaimed author Neal Bascomb brings his peerless research and fast-paced narrative style to a young adult adaptation of one of his most successful adult books of all time, The Perfect Mile, an inspiring and moving story of three men racing to achieve the impossible -- the perfect four-minute mile.There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier: Roger Bannister was a young English medical student who epitomized the ideal of the amateur; John Landy the privileged son of a genteel Australian family; and Wes Santee the swaggering American, a Kansas farm boy and naturalathlete.Spanning three continents and defying the odds, these athletes' collective quest captivated the world. Neal Bascomb's bestselling adult account adapted for young readers delivers a breathtaking story of unlikely heroes and leaves us with a lasting portrait of the twilight years of the golden age of sport\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scholastic US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49827439345912,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":37.18,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781338628463-1.jpg?v=1783684089","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9781338628463","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}