Foot: A Playful Biography
by Kathy Vanderlinden
List Price:
Our Price: $3.49
You Save: $13.46 (79%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Kathy VanderlindenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-23
ISBN: 1550549863
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Greystone Books
Book Reviews of Foot: A Playful Biography
Book Review: Very short book, some good pics, basic factoids
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a small hardcover book, and very short at about 50 pages. It's NOT a foot fetishist book (especially considering that there are only about 5 or 6 photos of women's feet within), it really is what the title conveys: a concise bio of the foot and footwear in history, from the ancients up to a brief mention of the Internet foot fetish craze. If you can get it used here (I found it under one of the marketplace sellers for like $3.50) it's worth it for the short read. Truth be told, the factoids that make up the text are usually basic common knowledge thingies like Chinese footbinding, descriptions of foot diseases, shoe crazes through history and snippets from poems that mention feet. I was actually interested in more on the erotica of female feet but can't blame Ms. Vanderlinden (a children's book author apparently!) since this wasn't the goal. A very nice format and a curiosity for the shelf...if you're ready for your houseguests' questions, especially when they see the "playful" jacket photo.
Summary of Foot: A Playful Biography
This tribute to an unsung part of the body collects a closetful of fascinating lore about the physical foot, foot fashion, and foot fetishism. Author Kathy Vanderlinden has collected every imaginable kind of fact and fancy about this all-important part of the anatomy. She explains the giddy pleasure, the lust, and the therapeutic value of shoes for the shoe lover, with such examples as the stiltlike chopine of 15th-century France, the outlandishly wide duckbill of 16th-century England, and the gorgeous Manolo Blahniks of today. Foot?s tantalizing tidbits cover foot rituals, foot fairytales, and foot beauty treatments, illustrated with a wealth of photos of beautiful, grotesque, and sexy shoes; images of the foot in art; famous feet; and foot ornamentation.
Home & Garden Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Home & Garden Books
Living a Dog's Life, Jazzy, Juicy, and Meby Cindy Adams
St. Martin's Griffin; Published: 2007-03-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.25
Price in other shops:
A Member of the Family: The Ultimate Guide to Living with a Happy, Healthy Dogby Cesar Millan
Three Rivers Press; Published: 2009-09-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Lifeby Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier
Crown Archetype; Published: 2007-10-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.93
Price in other shops:
Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglyby Howard Garrett, C. Malcolm Beck
University of Texas Press; Published: 2005-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.93
Price in other shops:
Old Possum's Book of Practical Catsby T.S.; Edward Gorey (Illust.) Eliot
Harcourt Brace & Co.; Published: 1982-08-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.96
Price in other shops:
Old Possum's Book of Practical Catsby T. S. Eliot
Harcourt, Brace & Co.; Published: 1982-08-30; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.47
Price in other shops:
American Junkby Mary Randolph Carter
Studio; Published: 1997-03-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.98
Price in other shops:
Blind Bloodhound Justiceby Virginia Lanier
HarperCollins; Published: 1998-07-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.49
Price in other shops:
The Secret Life of Plantsby Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird
Harper & Row; Published: 1973-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $103.50
The Complete Idiot's Guide To Feng Shuiby Elizabeth; Biktashev, Val Moran
Alpha Books; Published: 1999; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.73
Similar Books and other products
Nylon Girls: Erotic Fashion PhotographyGoliath Books; Published: 2009-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.82
Price in other shops:
Footsuckerby Geoff Nicholson
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 1996-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.71
Price in other shops:
Forbidden FootPathfinder Home ENT; Release date: 2007-11-20; DVD
Best price: $12.68
Price in other shops:
So Lovely The Feet: Case Histories of a Footloose Fetishby Dr. Garth Mundinger-Klow
olympiapress.com; Published: 2010-06-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.34
Price in other shops:
The Toybag Guide to Foot and Shoe Worshipby Midori
Greenery Press (CA); Published: 2004-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.77
Price in other shops:
Ed Fox: Glamour From the Ground Up: DVD Edition (25)Taschen; Published: 2010-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.22
Price in other shops:
Sexiest Soles: Erotic Stories About Feet and Shoes (The Fetish Chest)Alyson Books; Published: 2006-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.25
Price in other shops: