Sensational Past Outdoor pursuits such as maths

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Younger readers will be captivated by the haunting story of Siegfried and Odette

Sensational Past Outdoor pursuits such as mathsBlindfolding children from birth. Playing a piano made of live cats. Using tobacco to cure drowning. Wearing "flea" coloured clothes. These actions seem odd to us but in the eighteenth century they made sense. As Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores