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Zusatztext If there is one person in the modern world who can reinvigorate Mercuriale's enormous unfinished labor and bridge the physical, the philosophical, and the poetic - bridge Whitman and Warhol, Plato and Peloton, Kafka and Curie, Tennessee Williams and Serena Williams; bridge the "immediate bodily now" of exercise with "the wisdom of the past that had faded from living memory" - it is Bill Hayes. And so he does, in Sweat: A History of Exercise - an expedition, both existential and historical, spanning two thousand years and three continents Informationen zum Autor Bill Hayes is the author of Insomniac City and How New York Breaks Your Heart , a collection of his street photography, among other books. He is a recipient of the New York City Book Award for How We Live Now , and a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. Hayes has completed the screenplay for a film adaptation of Insomniac City , currently in the works from Brouhaha Entertainment, and he is also a co-editor of Oliver Sacks's posthumous books. He lives in New York. Visit his website at billhayes.com Klappentext 'I was riveted by Sweat and its extraordinary tale of the ups and downs of exercise over millennia' Jane Fonda ' Does what all good history books should do: take the past and make it vastly more human' The Times _________________________From the author of Insomniac City 'who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did' ( San Francisco Chronicle) : a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads to prove it. Exercise - a form of physical activity distinct from sports, play, or athletics - was an ancient obsession, too, but as a chapter in human history, it's been largely overlooked. In Sweat , Bill Hayes runs, jogs, swims, spins, walks, bikes, boxes, lifts, sweats, and downward-dogs his way through the origins of different forms of exercise, chronicling how they have evolved over time, and dissecting the dynamics of human movement. Hippocrates, Plato, Galen, Susan B. Anthony, Jack LaLanne, and Jane Fonda, among many others, make appearances in Sweat , but chief among the historical figures is Girolamo Mercuriale, a Renaissance-era Italian physician who aimed singlehandedly to revive the ancient Greek "art of exercising" through his 1569 book De arte gymnastica . In the pages of Sweat , Mercuriale and his illustrated treatise are vividly brought back to life . asHayes ties his own personal experience to the cultural and scientific history of exercise, from ancient times to the present day, he gives us a new way to understand its place in our lives in the 21st century. Vorwort An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did" ( SF Chronicle) - a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise, now in paperback. Zusammenfassung 'I was riveted by Sweat and its extraordinary tale of the ups and downs of exercise over millennia' Jane Fonda ' Does what all good history books should do: take the past and make it vastly more human' The Times _________________________From the author of Insomniac City 'who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did' ( San Francisco Chronicle) : a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads to prove it. Exercise - a form of physical activity distinct from sports, play, or athletics - was an ancient obsession, too, but as a chapter in human history, it's been largely overlo...
About the author
Bill Hayes is the author of
Insomniac City and
How New York Breaks Your Heart, a collection of his street photography, among other books. He is a recipient of the New York City Book Award for
How We Live Now, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. Hayes has completed the screenplay for a film adaptation of
Insomniac City, currently in the works from Brouhaha Entertainment, and he is also a co-editor of Oliver Sacks's posthumous books. He lives in New York. Visit his website at billhayes.com
