Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale : sport, health and exercise in eighteenth-century England /
Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale challenges the popular image of Samuel Johnson as a man who favoured energetic discussion over physical exercise, enthroned in an armchair peering short-sightedly at a book. Thanks to the diarist and author Hester Thrale we have many anecdotes that connect Dr...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front cover; Title page; Quotation; Swimming with Dr Johnsonand Mrs Thrale; Copyright ; Contents; Illustration List and Acknowledgements; Permissions for Quotations; Preface; Part I; Introduction; Exercise; Dr Johnson & Mrs Thrale- some mainly medical notes; Doing things 'differently'; Part II; Chapter 1 Boxing; Chapter 2 Cricket; Chapter 3 Dancing; Chapter 4 Foot-racing, leaping and climbing; Foot-racing; Leaping; Climbing; Chapter 5 Riding; Chapter 6 Skating; Chapter 7 Swimming; Chapter 8 Coach travel; 'Conclusion, in which nothing is concluded'; Bibliography; Back cover. | |
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