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The Lucky Bugger’s Casebook: Tales of Serendipity and Outrageous Good Fortune

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Tells us the stories of inventors, Nobel Prize winners, scientists, actresses, escapees, engineers, kings, architects, pop stars, criminals, supermodels, tennis champions, opera singers and many more who have benefited from happy serendipity. This title celebrates the type of ...

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Product ID:9781848311527
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Title:The Lucky Bugger's Casebook
Subtitle:Tales of Serendipity and Outrageous Good Fortune
Authors:Author: Daniel Smith
Page Count:256
Subjects:General and world history, General & world history, Humour collections and anthologies, Humour collections & anthologies
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Tells us the stories of inventors, Nobel Prize winners, scientists, actresses, escapees, engineers, kings, architects, pop stars, criminals, supermodels, tennis champions, opera singers and many more who have benefited from happy serendipity. This title celebrates the type of unexpected good fortune we all dream of.
What connects the discovery of America, the creation of Coca Cola and the art book bought for GBP50 that turned out to contain original Picassos? That''s right: sheer blind luck. No matter how meticulously things are planned, time after time the most important bits of life are the product of simple, random chance. In wonderfully witty style, Daniel M. Smith gives us the stories of inventors, Nobel Prize winners, scientists, actresses, escapees, engineers, kings, architects, pop stars, criminals, supermodels, tennis champions, opera singers and many more who have benefited from happy serendipity. From the Japanese trader who made fortune after a share price typo to the German novelist who lost his manuscript on a train, and ended up buying some fish wrapped in his own pages at the station, "The Lucky Bugger''s Casebook" is a celebration of the type of unexpected good fortune we all dream of - just ask Sir Paul McCartney, who awoke one morning with the tune to ''Yesterday'' having arrived in his head overnight.
Imprint Name:Icon Books
Publisher Name:Icon Books
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2010-10-07