00956cam2 22002651 450 SOBE0004268720140422155338.020140422d1993 |||||ita|0103 baitaIT<<10:>>Mastro-Don Gesualdo 1888Giovanni Vergaedizione critica a cura di Carla RiccardiFirenzeLe Monnier1993LI, 387 p.25 cm001SOBE000426842001 Edizione nazionale delle opere di Giovanni VergaVerga, Giovanni <1840-1922>AF00012311070289375RICCARDI, CarlaAF00023806070ITUNISOB20140422RICAUNISOBUNISOB85082405SOBE00042687M 102 Monografia moderna SBNM850003598-4SI82405acquistocatenacciUNISOBUNISOB20140422155340.020140422155415.0catenacciMastro-Don Gesualdo 1888212908UNISOB02663nam 2200637Ia 450 991046182710332120200520144314.01-280-68771-197866136646550-8032-4051-1(CKB)2670000000208138(EBL)931665(OCoLC)795120088(SSID)ssj0000600629(PQKBManifestationID)11939946(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600629(PQKBWorkID)10600341(PQKB)10738441(MiAaPQ)EBC931665(OCoLC)795159480(MdBmJHUP)muse16073(Au-PeEL)EBL931665(CaPaEBR)ebr10568889(CaONFJC)MIL366465(EXLCZ)99267000000020813820110826d2012 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrGame faces[electronic resource] five early American champions and the sports they changed /Thomas H. PaulyLincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20121 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8032-3817-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 . Tom Stevens; 2. Fanny Bullock Workman; 3. Bill Reid; 4. May Sutton; 5. Barney Oldfield; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis compelling blend of biography and cultural history depicts five important yet nearly forgotten athletes from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who had a transformative effect on their sports and on the evolution of sports in general. Tom Stevens was the first man to ride a bicycle, "a high wheeler," around the world (1884-87). Fanny Bullock Workman completed seven expeditions into the Himalayas between 1898 and 1912. Bill Reid, a Harvard football coach and one of the game's first professionals, played a key role in saving the sport from a national movement to abolishAthletesUnited StatesBiographySportsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySportsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.AthletesSportsHistorySportsHistory796.0922BPauly Thomas H905629MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461827103321Game faces2230978UNINA