Bicycling for Ladies: The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress
Autor Maria E Warden Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 apr 2021
- Keepsake, vintage packaging complete with antique photographs makes this the perfect gift book for a wide range of women and girls who are interested in history, etiquette, and sports.
- Bold title is provocative, funny, and sure to attract laughs, attention, and intrigue at a cash register.
- Biking continues to gain popularity; biking to work has increased by 60 percent in the US over the last decade, according to the Census Bureau. In “Bicycle Friendly Communities,” commuting by bike has increased by 105 percent. Exponential growth is expected following a massive decrease in public transportation resulting from COVID-19; according to NPD, sales of adult leisure bikes went up 121 percent in March 2020.
- 100 million Americans bike each year, including 45 million American women; every year more and more women get on bikes to commute, exercise, and relax—shrinking a once wider gender gap.
- Author has been featured in Bust and the New York Times, and was featured in the book Mothers and Daughters of Invention.
- The number of US women who identify as feminists has grown since 2016, and this book meets a growing market who will be drawn to the feminist perspective of the book and the intersectional history of bicycling and suffrage.
- Practical guides about biking sell extremely well. Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike (Workman, 2012), for example, has sold 29,000 copies RTD. This book combines that same nuts and bolts practicality with a charming and illuminating historical twist.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1948062526
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 127 x 191 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Apollo Publishers
Notă biografică
Maria E. Ward, known by her nickname Violet, was an avid bicyclist, the cofounder of the Staten Island Bicycling Club, and the author of Bicycling for Ladies. Ward was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of General William Greene Ward and Emily Graham Ward, and later lived in Staten Island with her parents and sister. She cofounded the Staten Island Bicycle Club with her friend, the acclaimed photographer Alice Austen, in 1895, and Austen's photographs were used as references for the illustrations in Bicycling for Ladies, originally published by Brentano's in 1896.
Ward has been widely celebrated for her contribution to the bicycling world in a wealth of media, including the New York Times article "Bicycle Diaries: Two Centuries of New York City" the Bust magazine article "First The Bicycle, Next The Vote: The Story Of Bicycles," the book Mothers and Daughters of Invention, and Momentum Mag, which called her one of the three women "who changed the course of history on bicycles." Ward lived in New York, and died in 1941 at the age of seventy-eight.
Cuprins
Preface
Foreword by Victoria Munro, Executive Director, Alice Austen House
Foreword by Maxine Friedman, Chief Curator, Historic Richmond Town
Preface by Maria Ward
- 1. Possibilities
- 2. What the Bicycle Does
- 3. On Wheels in General and Bicycles in Particular
- 4. For Beginners
- 5. How to Make Progress
- 6. Helping and Teaching; What to Learn
- 7. A Few Things to Remember
- 8. The Art of Wheeling a Bicycle
- 9. Position and Power
- 10. Difficulties to Overcome
- 11. Dress
- 12. Watch and Cyclometer
- 13. Women and Tools
- 14. Tools and How to Use Them
- 15. Solving a Problem
- 16. Where to Keep a Bicycle
- 17. Tires
- 18. Mechanics of Bicycling
- 19. Adjustment
- 20. Exercise
- 21. Training
- 22. Breathlessness; The Limit Mechanical