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42: Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
42 Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life the Universe and Everything Author:Peter Gill At last! For many, many years readers have wondered: why is the number 42 the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything? What was Douglas Adams thinking when wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? How did he know that 42 contained all there is to know about everything? It has taken amateur numerological sleuth and genuine D... more »ouglas Adams fan Peter Gill over ten years to marshall his evidence, and finally he can reveal the truth. 42 really is the amazingly accurate answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everthing! For Douglas Adams fans and lovers of QI alike, this is the perfect tongue-in-cheek compendium of remarkable facts. Roaming far and wide - from rock music to Eastern architecture, transatlantic rowing records to Adolf Hitler, cricket to Nijinsky - this is the ultimate collection of esoteric and confounding information. No stone has been unturned. To get to the very heart of the secret of 42, Gill has scoured the world for information. He has visited Ken Walsh, the author of the famous volume The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe, which served as the setting-off point for Adams's great adventure, and discovered a fascinating new nugget. He has counted, added, multiplied and divided. The 42 hours which it took the Beatles to record Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da pales into insignificance beside his research efforts. Although, unlike Sir Paul McCartney, who waited 42 years after recording that song to actually perform it live, Peter Gill is ready now to share his arcane secrets with the world.« less