How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
HK$180.00
DESCRIPTION :
Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work “imagines the Victorians as intrepid survivors” (New Republic) of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics to slipping opium to the little ones, Goodman’s account of Victorian life “makes you feel as if you could pass as a native” (The New Yorker).
PRODUCT DETAILS :
DIMENSION : 208 mm x 140 mm
WEIGHT : 368 g
PRODUCT SAFETY : US CPSIA or other international hazard warning - No flashing hazard warning necessary
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
History & Archaeology
Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work “imagines the Victorians as intrepid survivors” (New Republic) of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics to slipping opium to the little ones, Goodman’s account of Victorian life “makes you feel as if you could pass as a native” (The New Yorker).
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9781631491139 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Goodman, Ruth | |
| PUBLISHER : W W Norton & Co Ltd | PUBLICATION DATE : September 21, 2015 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States | IMPRINT : Liveright Publishing Corporation |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 368 g
PRODUCT SAFETY : US CPSIA or other international hazard warning - No flashing hazard warning necessary
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
History & Archaeology