How to Get Strong and How to Stay So

William Blaikie

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 169 pages

First published in 1883, William Blaikie’s essay collection argues for physical education. Addressing people whose city lives keep them indoors, he says the body deserves training like the mind and offers practical thoughts on building and keeping strength. It offers a window into nineteenth-century ideas about fitness and health.

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