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Walker's manly exercises / Containing rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, shooting, and other manly sports

Chapter 1: WALKER’S MANLY EXERCISES AND RURAL SPORTS. EDITED BY “CRAVEN.”
By Donald Walker
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A comprehensive manual offers practical, step-by-step instruction in physical training and rural sports, covering locomotor skills such as walking, running, leaping, vaulting, balancing, skating, and swimming, together with guidance on rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, and shooting. It explains posture, mechanics of movement, breathing, progressive training, equipment and dress, safety and first-aid, and a wide range of exercises and feats, supplemented by diagrams and plates illustrating technique, apparatus, and equestrian or nautical equipment.

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Title: Walker's manly exercises

Author: Donald Walker

Editor: John William Carleton

Release date: October 1, 2022 [eBook #69080]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: H. G. Bohn, 1855

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WALKER’S
MANLY EXERCISES
AND
RURAL SPORTS.
EDITED BY “CRAVEN.”

MANLY
EXERCISES,
SAILING, ROWING,
DRIVING, RIDING, HUNTING,
RACING, SEATING, SWIMMING,
VAULTING, CLIMBING,
RUNNING,
&c. &c.
HENRY G. BOHN,
LONDON.

WALKER’S
MANLY EXERCISES;

CONTAINING

Rowing, Sailing, Riding, Driving, Racing, Hunting,
Shooting,

AND OTHER MANLY SPORTS.

THE WHOLE CAREFULLY REVISED, OR WRITTEN,

BY “CRAVEN.”

NINTH EDITION.

LONDON:
H. G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
MDCCCLV.