The Massage Book

Published in 1972 and continuously in print since then, The Massage Book introduced Swedish massage to American culture. Still current and well regarded, The Massage Book was listed by National Health magazine as the first of twenty-five best books that have changed our thinking about our health and our world.  Today, as alternative treatments are being discovered by mainstream health plans, massage is still going strong.  In the last twenty-five years, countless books on massage have been published, but none rivals The Massage Book.

• Paperback
• 184 pages
• Vintage, 24th Printing edition, 1982
• Good Used Condition with minor discoloration 

Anne Kent Rush, a descendant of Dr. Benjamin Rush, an American health revolutionary who signed the Declaration of Independence, was born in Mobile, Alabama. She is the author of The Back Rub Book; Getting Clear: Body Work for Women; Moon, Moon; The Basic Back Book; co-author of Feminism as Therapy; and illustrator of The Massage Book. Rush was on the training staffs of Alyssum Center and of Esalen Institute in California, was a partner in Moon Books, and has taught in the U. S. and Europe. She wrote and illustrated Greta Bear Goes to Yellowstone National Park, the first in a series of children's travel books on wildlife conservation.