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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Julia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Lutterworth Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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