From Ritual to Record
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 15, 1979
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780231083690
Subjects: Anthropology; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sociology - General; Social aspects; Sports; United States; Sociology
First sentence: 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."