Early British Swimming 55BC-AD1719 by Nicholas Orme

Early British Swimming 55BC-AD1719

Nicholas Orme

228 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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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. Ni...

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