Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale: Sport, Health and Exercise in Eighteenth-Century England by Julia Allen

Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale: Sport, Health and Exercise in Eighteenth-Century England

Julia Allen

310 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
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'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 autho...

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