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Cycling: The Craze of the Hour by London Library
15.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: London library
"Directly you are in motion you will feel quite helpless, and experience a sensation of being run away with, and it will seem as if the machine were trying to throw you off" Cycling: The Craze of the Hour is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The books in this series have ...Show more
Gentlewoman's Book of Sports by PUSHKIN PRESS
15.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: London library
"One would hear considerably less of hysteria, of morphine-mania, and of other regrettable characteristics of fin-de-siecle existence, if women were to take to fencing as one of the regular occupations of their day" The Gentlewoman's Book of Sports is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The L ...Show more
Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth by London Library Staff Contribu
15.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: London library
"Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipation of intellectual and moral power. Its consequence is exhaustion and nervous collapse. And its symptom is Hurry" Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth is par ...Show more
On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind by London Library
15.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: London library
"Oh! that the faculty would look deeper into and make themselves better acquainted with the crying evil of obesity - that dreadful tormenting parasite on health and comfort" On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The boo ...Show more
On Reading, Writing and Living with Books by Library, London
15.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: London library
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