Tennis

Tennis
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Publisher : Burns & Oates
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015047055424
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Book Synopsis Tennis by : Heiner Gillmeister

Download or read book Tennis written by Heiner Gillmeister and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1997 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover painting shows an 18th-century Italian game of tennis, and the opening chapter is intriguingly subtitled "Tennis and the Devil." Gillmeister (linguistics, U. of Bonn) provides a sociohistorical survey of this popular sport. Illustrations and photos as well as commentary trace the game from its origins as "the monk's racket" --an attenuated medieval form of football--, through Renaissance literary references to it, to its evolution as lawn tennis in America and Europe. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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