Timekeepers : How the World Became Obsessed with Time

from PDCRead

Time is one of those entities that we cannot buy nor store; it just grinds inexorably on; tick, tock; second by second, and once gone can never be had again. And yet we still never have enough of it. In the days before clocks, we timed our lives by the rising and setting of the sun, working and r...

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I wanted to read this book because the cover was fantastically intriguing. Like the cover the book itself was fascinating and a good read. I appreciated the fact that the book was not like other books I had read about using my time wisely. It was not a self-help book, it was factual, filled with ...

from Eyejaybee

I really ought to know better by now. I made the fatal error, yet again, of allowing myself to be too gullible, and letting the publisher's blurbs on the cover of the book sell me the dummy. I had read, and enjoyed, a couple of Simon Armitage's books before. Indeed, I had found his 'The last Jour...

from Welsh_eileen2

A very informative and interesting history of time from its beginnings - how each country measured time differently to today's co ordinated way with time. The anecdotes sprinkled through the book give an added dimension also. Great read and very highly recommended. I was given a digital copy of t...

from Welsh_eileen2

A very informative and interesting history of time from its beginnings - how each country measured time differently to today's co ordinated way with time. The anecdotes sprinkled through the book give an added dimension also. Great read and very highly recommended. I was given a digital copy of t...