Cover of From Ritual to Record

Book 1979

From Ritual to Record

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Published
1979
  • Social aspects
  • Social aspects of Sports
  • Sports
  • Sports, history
  • Sports, social aspects

IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, The Four Minute Mile (1955), Roger Bannister tells of a moment in childhood when he stood "barefoot on firm dry sand by the sea."