It won the Telegraph Sports Book Award for "Best Sports Writing", and was shortlisted for a Costa Book Award, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and the Boardman Tasker Prize. Dan Jones, the New York Times bestselling author, called it a “gorgeous and deeply affecting book: a tale of tragedy and obsession, pluck and luck, told at the pace of a thriller and bursting with heart… a fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time and time again that he is among the best of his generation.” The book was named a Sunday Times biography of 2020, and the best sports book of the year by the Times. His first book, Two Hours: The Quest To Run The Impossible Marathon, was published in 2015 and won a Cross Sports Book of the Year award.Ĭaesar’s second book, The Moth and the Mountain, is about the war veteran, mystic, and adventurer Maurice Wilson, who attempted to climb Everest in 1934.
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