Early British Swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719: With the First Swimming Treatise in English, 1595University of Exeter, 1983 - 215 pàgines
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Pàgina 11
... king of the Geats , is characterised as the perfect type of a warrior : noble of birth , strong , brave , loyal , civilised - and also able to swim . Three feats of swimming are ascribed to him , each at a different stage of his life ...
... king of the Geats , is characterised as the perfect type of a warrior : noble of birth , strong , brave , loyal , civilised - and also able to swim . Three feats of swimming are ascribed to him , each at a different stage of his life ...
Pàgina 13
... king of the Persians , march- ed with his army to attack Babylon , but was prevented from doing so by the River Gyges . One of the king's knights , on reaching the water , felt confident that he could cross it ( transmeandi ) , but was ...
... king of the Persians , march- ed with his army to attack Babylon , but was prevented from doing so by the River Gyges . One of the king's knights , on reaching the water , felt confident that he could cross it ( transmeandi ) , but was ...
Pàgina 17
... King Sigurd Jerusalem - Farer , who appears to have been jealous of his own superiority in the water . Elsewhere in ... King Sigurd saw and heard this , he cast off his clothes , sprang into the water , and swam to the Icelander , seized ...
... King Sigurd Jerusalem - Farer , who appears to have been jealous of his own superiority in the water . Elsewhere in ... King Sigurd saw and heard this , he cast off his clothes , sprang into the water , and swam to the Icelander , seized ...
Continguts
The Middle Ages 10661500 | 22 |
The Sixteenth Century | 46 |
Everard Digby and his Art of Swimming | 69 |
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Early British Swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719: With the First Swimming Treatise in ... Nicholas Orme Previsualització limitada - 1983 |
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Referències a aquest llibre
Ritual and Record: Sports Records and Quantification in Pre-Modern Societies John M. Carter,Arnd Kruger Visualització de fragments - 1990 |
The Springboard in Th Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool Thomas A. P. Van Leeuwen,Helen Searing Previsualització no disponible - 1998 |