Early British Swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719: With the First Swimming Treatise in English, 1595University of Exeter Press, 1983 - 215 pages
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... With the First Swimming Treatise in English , 1595 By NICHOLAS ORME Reader in History , University of Exeter This One NAHY - A8D - 189F UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 1983 The text of Christopher Middleton's A Short Introduction for to.
... With the First Swimming Treatise in English , 1595 By NICHOLAS ORME Reader in History , University of Exeter This One NAHY - A8D - 189F UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 1983 The text of Christopher Middleton's A Short Introduction for to.
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... Middleton's A Short Introduction for to Learn to Swim is reprinted by kind permission of the Beinecke Library , University of Yale , and the Bodleian Library , Oxford , and the illustrations ( from Everard Digby's De Arte Natandi ) by ...
... Middleton's A Short Introduction for to Learn to Swim is reprinted by kind permission of the Beinecke Library , University of Yale , and the Bodleian Library , Oxford , and the illustrations ( from Everard Digby's De Arte Natandi ) by ...
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... Seventeenth Century II A Short Introduction for to Learn to Swim , translated by Christopher Middleton from Digby's De Arte Natandi Bibliography Index 1 22 46 69 22 92 111 209 211 PREFACE It An historian who learns to swim in later vii.
... Seventeenth Century II A Short Introduction for to Learn to Swim , translated by Christopher Middleton from Digby's De Arte Natandi Bibliography Index 1 22 46 69 22 92 111 209 211 PREFACE It An historian who learns to swim in later vii.
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