Name: Cycling: The Craze of the Hour (The London Library) (en Inglés)
Price: 57.99 PEN
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Author: Cecily Gayford
ISBN: 9781782272465

portada Cycling: The Craze of the Hour (The London Library) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Pushkin Press

Autor

Cecily Gayford

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

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Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781782272465

Categorías

Colecciones y antologías de humor

Cycling: The Craze of the Hour (The London Library) (en Inglés)

Cecily Gayford (Autor) · Pushkin Press · Tapa Blanda

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The first bicycle was invented at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1890s that the craze really took off. This brought with it the fears, scaremongering, worries and uncertainties that inevitably accompany any new fashion. Women (often unchaperoned and oddly dressed) taking to "velocipedes"; overexertion; the possibility of heart disease - these are just some of the fears that haunted the establishment in the late nineteenth century... But with it, of course, came the joy and wonder of "the easy and agreeable motion" of this thoroughly modern means of locomotion.The books in "Found on the Shelves" have been chosen to give a fascinating insight into the treasures that can be found while browsing in The London Library. Now celebrating its 175th anniversary, with over seventeen miles of shelving and more than a million books, The London Library has become an unrivalled archive of the modes, manners and thoughts of each generation which has helped to form it.From essays on dieting in the 1860s to instructions for gentlewomen on trout-fishing, from advice on the ill health caused by the "modern" craze of bicycling to travelogues from Norway, they are as readable and relevant today as they were more than a century ago - even if the cardiovascular dangers of cycling have now been disproved!