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  • Should Throsby join their ranks, it will add lustre to what she calls her "auto-ethnography".

    Swimming the Channel in the name of research 2010

  • Throsby, 42, has always been interested in gender issues and is fascinated by the reaction of friends whom she hasn't seen for a while when they remark about her evident upper-body strength.

    Swimming the Channel in the name of research 2010

  • At the moment, Throsby is spending every weekend with the Kent-based community of groups who get together to train in Dover Harbour.

    Swimming the Channel in the name of research 2010

  • Throsby will also be talking to the wider community, such as the trainers, swimmers 'families and the boat pilots who offer guidance, support for swimmers in difficulty and sustenance every half hour or so: an energy drink, banana and – in her case – jelly babies.

    Swimming the Channel in the name of research 2010

  • Throsby wants her research to question orthodox ideas about what counts as a sporting body in contemporary society.

    Swimming the Channel in the name of research 2010

  • Throsby gives an illustration in his "History of the County," 1797, was in all probability a hermitage.

    Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe 1879

  • Hume, in company with Throsby, must have been close to it during their various excursions, and in 1821 Hume discovered Yass Plains, almost on its bank.

    The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876

  • Asked about the safe Labor seat of Throsby, currently held by Left faction convenor Stephen Jones, a cautious Anderson said: Throsby, strategically I suppose, it could make sense.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • The 63-year-old anti-carbon tax campaigner has the Labor-held seat of Throsby, based in Wollongong, in his sights, but could also make a run for the northern NSW seat of Page, at the suggestion of Tony Abbott.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • Throsby, _Thornton's History of Nottinghamshire_, _iv.

    The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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