A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage
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 Pilgrimage The 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 illustrated travel memoirs of those Pennells were--and still are--highly entertaining. They helped usher in the new age of…
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Weitere Autoren: Pennell, Joseph / Buchanan, Dave (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-77212-042-4
- EAN: 9781772120424
- Produktnummer: 17879491
- Verlag: University of Alberta Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 308 g
- Abbildungen: 69 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 308
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
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