Not only are the two matches covered in the book considered the greatest ever, they mark the golden age of tennis. They made McEnroe a superstar, began Borg's precipitous decline and showed how the game was changing from quiet to loud and wood to metal. * A top tennis writer tells the story of the g[...]
Maritime chronometers are rare and precious items, crafted with care and precision, to provide an accurate means of measuring time and determining longitude at sea. Developed in the eighteenth century, these beautiful instruments were produced for the next two hundred years to the same design, and p[...]