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 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 illustrated travel memoirs of those Pennells were-and still are-highly entertaining. They helped usher in the new age of leis…
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Weitere Autoren: Pennell, Joseph / Buchanan, Dave (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-77212-094-3
- EAN: 9781772120943
- Produktnummer: 34611244
- Verlag: University of Alberta Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 201 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 31'320 KB
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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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