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The Kings of Wrestling: Anecdotes and Stories of Wrestling from the Distant Past to Our Times

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Language
English
Publishers
McFarland (2 July 2024)
Weight
0.59 KG
Publication Date
02/07/2024
ISBN-10
1476694079
Pages
340 pages
ISBN-13
9781476694078
Dimensions
17.78 x 1.73 x 25.4 cm
Reading Age
18 years and up
SKU
9781476694078
Author Name
Edmond Desbonnet (Author)
David L. Chapman lives in Seattle, WA, and is the author of over a dozen books on male photography and bodybuilding, including "Sandow the Magnificent" (Univ. of Illinois, 1994), "American Hunks" (Arsenal, 2009), "Universal Hunks" (Arsenal, 2013) and "Venus with Biceps" (Arsenal, 2010). He also translated for the first time into English "The Kings of Strength" by French historian Edmond Desbonnet (McFarland, 2022). Chapman also translated "Love and Gymnastics" (Hesperus, 2011), an Italian comic novel from 1892 about a wimpy little man who falls in love with a large, muscular woman. He is also interested in Euro-jazz and has produced "Jazz Italiano" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019).Read more about this authorRead less about this author
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Wrestling dates back to ancient times, but it was not until Edmond Desbonnet (1867-1953) produced his groundbreaking work The Kings of Wrestling in 1910 that its history was set down in book-length form. His work consists of nearly 150 biographies and accompanying photos of the men who pioneered professional wrestling, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He explains how Greco-Roman wrestling emerged in France around 1845 and then evolved into a big business during its golden age of 1890 to 1910. The sport drew men from all over Europe as well as Africans, Turks, East Indians, Russians, Americans, and others.

Wrestling became the first truly international sport the world had ever known. Desbonnet wrote his history in French, and it is translated here for the first time.

This richly illustrated edition has an introduction and extensive annotations, along with many contemporary newspaper articles, book excerpts and magazine pieces from French, Italian and German sources. .

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