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An Italian Pilgrimage
Journey across Europe aboard a tandem tricycle in these two Victorian-era travelogues that take readers to England and Italy.A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. You have a good horse, he then said; it eats nothing. -from An Italian PilgrimageThe 1880s was an exhilarating time for cycling pioneers like Elizabeth and her husband Joseph. As boneshakers and high-wheelers evolved into tandem tricycles and the safety bike, cycling grew from child's play and extreme sport into a leisurely and, importantly, literary mode of transportation. The…
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Weitere Autoren: Pennell, Joseph / Buchanan, Dave (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-77212-092-9
- EAN: 9781772120929
- Produktnummer: 38073321
- Verlag: The University of Alberta Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 201 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936) and Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), a married couple from Philadelphia, collaborated on numerous books as writer and illustrator.
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