Excerpt from Gypsy Days: In Colorado, California, Florida and the Canada Bush
Half the powers of the air, the earth and the Devil had not then been summoned-as slaves by science to vex the brain, suffocate the lungs, unstring the nerves, and let unused muscles for get their purpose until their energy should be lost forever. Gas, coal, steam, electricity, and their increasing kith and kin of light, heat, force and wonder-workers, were minding their own business in unsuspected concealment, and ordinarily when a man wanted anything done, he did it himself: in the present period of mechanical progress and complication, he does not do so if he can com mand mechanical aid - We are elevated, con veyed, transported, lighted, heated, shampooed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.| ISBN: | 9780484893183 |
| Publication date: | 5th February 2018 |
| Author: | Lambertus Wolters Ledyard |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 188 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |
Excerpt from Gypsy Days: In Colorado, California, Florida and the Canada Bush
Half the powers of the air, the earth and the Devil had not then been summoned-as slaves by science to vex the brain, suffocate the lungs, unstring the nerves, and let unused muscles for get their purpose until their energy should be lost forever. Gas, coal, steam, electricity, and their increasing kith and kin of light, heat, force and wonder-workers, were minding their own business in unsuspected concealment, and ordinarily when a man wanted anything done, he did it himself: in the present period of mechanical progress and complication, he does not do so if he can com mand mechanical aid - We are elevated, con veyed, transported, lighted, heated, shampooed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.Gypsy Days features in the following genres: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Gypsy Days is available in Hardback
Gypsy Days was written by Lambertus Wolters Ledyard and published by Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd
Gypsy Days has 188 pages