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

by Daniel Smith and Daniel Smith

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848311524
• ISBN13: 9781848311527
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"