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Early British Swimming 55BC-AD1719 (Exeter Maritime Studies)
Early British Swimming 55BCAD1719 - Exeter Maritime Studies
Author: Nicholas Orme
In 1857 Everard Digby, an extrovert Cambridge scholar, published the first scientific treatise on swimming ? and one of the first on any modern sport. Six months later he was expelled from his college, and died in obscurity as a country parson. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a great pioneer of the history of sport. The book opens with a d...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780859891349
ISBN-10: 0859891348
Publication Date: 1/15/1993
Pages: 228
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Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Book Type: Paperback
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