How does one play bridge in a gas mask? Or enjoy motoring without consuming petrol? Or deal with a nationwide shortage of pea-sticks? For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with writer Cecil Hunt to show civilians how to make the best of things during the air raids, rationing, allotment tending and blackouts of the Second World War. The result is a warm celebration of the British populations ability to make do and mend. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Titolo: Heath Robinson?s Home Front � " How To Make Do and Mend in Style
Editore: Bodleian Library, United Kingdom
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN 10: 1851244441
ISBN 13: 9781851244447
Rilegatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Peso: 195 grammi

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Heath Robinson&;s Home Front sees the well-loved cartoonist working in collaboration with the writer and humorist Cecil Hunt. Together, they offer hopelessly impractical solutions to some of the most perplexing problems of the day. Pity the poor Briton advised to play his weekly bridge tournament while wearing a gas mask, the gardener who substitutes a complex configuration of magnets in the shortage of simple pea-sticks, or the motorist who must find a way to power her vehicle without gasoline. The result is an amusingly idiosyncratic celebration of the British population&;s remarkable ability to &;make do and mend.&;

Heath Robinson was a household name in Britain, and millions of readers around the world continue to thoroughly enjoy his cartoons today. A classic military-themed compendium, Heath Robinson&;s Home Front will be a favorite with fans of the cartoonist&;s complicated, fanciful contraptions.

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W. Heath Robinson (1872&;1944) was a British cartoonist. Trained in painting at the Royal Academy of Arts, he eventually became so well-known for the madcap contraptions that were the subject of cartoons in popular weeklies that a codebreaking device was named after him during WWII. Cecil Hunt (1902&;1954) was a writer and editor of more than sixty books. He was most famous for his books of &;howlers,&; which collected errors made by British schoolchildren in their written work.

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