Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports av Edward Brooke-Hitching

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<B>'An entertaining new book… which looks back at the most bizarre sporting activities ever devised by mankind' <I>Daily Mail</I><BR/>'Perfect book for the Christmas stockings of adults and curious children' <I>Wall Street Journal</I><BR/><BR/> For those who enjoyed the quirkiness of <I>Schott's Miscellany</I>, the erudition of <I>The Etymologicon</I> or the extremes of <I>The Dangerous Book for Boys</I>, this is the ideal read.</B><BR/><BR/> From <B>Flagpole Sitting</B> to Hot Cockles, Edward Brooke-Hitching has researched through piles of dusty tomes to bring vividly back to life some of <B>the most curious, dangerous and downright bizarre sports</B> and pastimes ever devised, before we thought better of it and erased them from the memory. After all, who would ever want to bring back <B>Fox Tossing</B>, a popular sport for men and women in 17th-century Germany? The sport involved dozens of couples pairing up and standing 20-25 feet apart