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LEADER: 04275cam 2200541 i 4500
001 ocn904813280
003 OCoLC
005 20210614152944.0
008 160322s2015 nyua b 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2016304633
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020 $a9781501115141$q(hardback)
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050 00 $aGV707$b.B73 2015
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100 1 $aBrooke-Hitching, Edward,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFox tossing :$band other forgotten and dangerous sports, pastimes, and games /$cEdward Brooke-Hitching.
250 $aFirst Touchstone hardcover edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bTouchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,$c2015.
300 $aviii, 264 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-264).
520 $a"In the spirit of Schott's Miscellany and The Dangerous Book for Boys, a quirky collection of history's most bizarre sports and stories of mankind's most daring and ridiculous recreational pursuits--from baby boxing, to octopus wrestling, and ice tennis, "--Amazon.com.
505 0 $aAerial Golf -- The Aquatic Tripod -- Auto Polo -- Baby Boxing -- Balloon Jumping -- Barking Off Squirrels -- Barrel Jumping -- Baseball with Cannon -- Battle-Ball -- Bear-Baiting and the Bear Garden -- Beat the Cat Out of the Barrel -- Bird-Batting -- Bloodless Dueling -- Bone Skating -- Bow-and-Arrow Golf -- Boxing on Horseback -- Bull-Running -- Car vs. Bull -- Cat-Burning -- Centrifugal Bowling -- Chasse aux Toiles -- Cheetah Greyhound Racing -- Chunkey -- Close-Quarters Bear Combat -- Cock-Shying and Other Poultry-Based Blood Sports -- Codeball -- Competitive Trumpet-Blowing -- Copsole-Pulling -- Cricket on Horseback -- Donkey-Boxing -- Duck-Baiting -- Dwile Flonking -- Eel-Pulling -- Fiery Kites -- Firework Boxing -- Flagpole-Sitting -- Flyting -- Fox Tossing -- The Game of the Bridge and Other City Battles -- Goldfish-Swallowing -- The Great Tricycle Regatta -- Hidden Hunting -- Hopping -- Hot Cockles -- Hot Hasty Pudding-Eating, Jingling, and Other Sports of the Fair -- Human-Fishing -- Hunting with Cheetahs -- Hunting Ye Otter -- Ice Tennis -- The Ice Velocipede -- Italian Cat Head Butting -- Kottabos -- Last Couple in Hell -- Lion-Baiting -- Man-Baiting -- Man vs. Woman Combat -- Mob Football -- Monkey-Fighting -- The Monowheel -- Naumachiae -- New York Bullfighting -- Octopus-Wrestling -- Ollamaliztli -- Olympics-Forgotten Events -- One-Legged Cricket -- Pedestrianism -- People-Throwing -- Phone Booth Stuffing -- Phosphorescent Golf -- Pig-Running -- Pig-Sticking -- Porcupine Hunting -- Puntgunning -- The Quintain -- Racing Deer -- Ratting -- The Royal Game -- Ski Ballet -- Stilts vs. Runners vs. Horses -- Stoolball -- Tip-Cat -- Tortoise Racing -- Tuho -- Universal Football -- Venatio -- Viking Sports -- Vinkensport -- Walking-Stick Fighting -- Waterfall-Riding -- Wolfing.
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650 0 $aSports$xMiscellanea.
650 0 $aSports$vAnecdotes.
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655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 $aTrivia and miscellanea.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01921748
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856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2016304633-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2016304633-d.html
938 $aBrodart$bBROD$n112274447
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0016719311
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n12331184
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994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 264 OTHER HOLDINGS