Cycling: The Craze of the Hour
(Book #1 in the Found on The Shelves of The London Library Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1782272461
ISBN13:9781782272465
Release Date:March 2017
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 4.3" x 6.7"
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