TITLE:
An approved history of the Olympic games / by Bill Henry & Patricia Henry Yeomans.
Publication Date:
1984
Publication Information:
Los Angeles, Calif. : Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games,
Edition:
1984 ed.
Physical Description:
504 p. : ill.
Additional Contributors:
Summary:
In 1948, when Bill Henry published this book, it was the first definitive, documented and approved book telling the whole story of the Olympic Games. Now, upated to 1983, it is a mine of information, including the official results of each Olympiad to the first six places in every event. The book includes each celebration of the Games through the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games at Lake Placid, New York and the 1980 XXIInd Olympiad at Moscow. The books traces the origin of the Games back to antiquity, shows their modern beginnings in the educational reforms of Thomas Arnold at Rugby School in England.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780882842554
