New Releases by Peter Wright

Photographs of the western national parks complemented by a history of the defunct Mural Project.

书名原文: Spy catcher

"The following book about the ‘Henpecked Club’ was published in 1810, and the contents suggest the club had been in existence for centuries, though precisely how long we cannot tell without further corroborating documentation. What we do know is that the club continued to exist until at least the 1970’s, in countries a diverse as Austria, England, Germany, France, Australia, Yugoslavia, United States, China, Japan, and many others...." "The Henpecked Society’s very real objective was to uphold what they saw as widespread domination of men by wives, as stated in this book: “The design and ostensible object of the Institution having always been to preserve, and even, if possible, to extend the just and laudable dominion of the fair sex.”