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The Surfboard - How Using My Hands Helped Unlock My Mind - cover

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The Surfboard - How Using My Hands Helped Unlock My Mind

Dan Kieran

Publisher: Unbound

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Summary

Dan is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Crap Towns (the first viral internet phenomenon to find success as a book), The Idle Traveller (named travel book of the year by Germany’s Die Zeit) and Three Men in a Float.Dan is the co-founder of Unbound and has given talks on creativity and entrepreneurship at the Do Lectures, Cambridge University and the European Parliament.For fans of Richard Sennett's The Craftsman, Robert Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Peter Korn's Why We Make Things and Why It Matters.
Available since: 09/20/2018.

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