The Lucky Bugger's Casebook by Daniel Smith - 9781848311527

Name: The Lucky Bugger's Casebook by Daniel Smith - 9781848311527
Brand: Icon Books

Icon Books

The Lucky Bugger's CasebookTales of Serendipity and Outrageous Good Fortune\nAuthor(s): Daniel Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Icon Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Icon Books\nISBN-13: 9781848311527, 978-1848311527\nSynopsis\nWhat 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 i.