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Chapters: Mark Bingham, Greg Louganis, Emile Griffith, Bill Tilden, Chris Kanyon, Donal Óg Cusack, Justin Fashanu, John Amaechi, Pat Patterson, Brendan Burke, Gareth Thomas, Gottfried Von Cramm, Matthew Mitcham, Brian Orser, Ian Roberts, Glenn Burke, Bruce Hayes, Mark Tewksbury, John Curry, Toller Cranston, Rudy Galindo, Otto Peltzer, Bob Paris, Johan Kenkhuis, Robert Mccall, Ondrej Nepela, Ryan O'meara, David Wilson, Esera Tuaolo, Billy Bean, J. P. Calderon, Nigel Owens, Kyle Hawkins, David Kopay, Brian Pockar, Ronald Robertson, Ray Mcdonald, Blyth Tait, Lee Pearson, Ted Tinling, Ji Wallace, Brad Patton, Lindsy Mclean, Hans Peter Minderhoud, Peter Karlsson, Alexandros Terzian, Matthew Hall, Chris Morgan, Olivier Rouyer, Dave Pallone, Mathew Helm, Mark Leduc, Ivan Bussens, Thomas Berling, Andrew Goldstein, Tom Waddell, Roy Simmons, Patrick Jeffrey, Greg Duhaime, Are Grongstad, John Blankenstein, Dan Veatch, David Pichler, Graham Ackerman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 259. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 June 5, 1953), nicknamed "Big Bill," is often considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. An American tennis player who was the World No. 1 player for seven years, Bill Tilden dominated the world of international tennis in the first half of the 1920s. Tilden was born into a wealthy Philadelphia family bereaved by the death of three older siblings. He lost his semi-invalid mother when he was 15 and, even though his father was still alive and maintained a large house staffed with servants, was sent a few houses away to live with a maiden aunt. The subsequent loss at 19 of his father and older brother marked him deeply. After several months of deep depression, and with encouragement from his aunt, tennis became his primary ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=772670 ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.
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British Library

T089666

The letter is dated at the end: April 27th, 1799.

Dublin : printed and sold by Marchbank, 1799. iv,63,[1]p. ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.
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British Library

T134249

Printer's name from verso of titlepage and colophon.With three final pages of advertisements.

London : Dublin printed: London, reprinted [by S. Gosnell] for J. Wright, 1799. iv,93,[3]p. ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.
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University of London's Goldsmiths' Library

T056422

Also issued as part of: 'Tracts on the subject of an union', v.6, Dublin, 1799.

Dublin : printed and sold by Marchbank, 1799. iv,63,[1]p. ; 8° ... Read more