BOSTON: A CENTURY OF RUNNING
by Hal Higdon (Rodale Press, Inc., 256 pages, $40.00). On April 19, 1897, 15 runners gathered together in Ashland, Massachusetts, to run 25 miles into the city of Boston. On April 15, 1996, more than 25,000 runners ran the same route, thus celebrating the one hundredth running of the Boston Marathon. With the assistance of more than two hundred historical and modern-day photographs, Higdon traces the history of the race–which was inspired by the first modern Olympic Marathon, held in Greece in 1896–through the accounts of those runners who competed in the best-known footrace in the world.
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