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Swimming / by Archibald Sinclair and William Henry ; with illustrations by S.T. Dadd and from photographs by G. Mitchell.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1893 Sinclai
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinclair, Archibald, 1866-
- Series:
- Badminton library of sports and pastimes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swimming.
- Genre:
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1893.
- Physical Description:
- 486 p. : ill., plates ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown ; London : Longmans, Green, 1893.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The teaching of swimming
- The art of swimming
- Diving, plunging, and floating
- Scientific swimming
- Bathing in the open
- Life-saving
- Water-polo
- The government of swimming
- The universities and public schools
- Management of swimming meetings
- Training
- Public baths.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography; p. 453-460.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Brown pictorial cloth and black lettering with an illustrated cover signed "Ch. Whymper."
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in brown cloth, illustrated cover and spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Ex libris: NY Mercantile Library.
- OCLC:
- 13593939
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