Sneaker Century: A History of Athletic Shoes

by Amber J. Keyser

Book Overview

Whether you call them kicks or sneakers, runners or gutties, you probably have a pair of athletic shoes in your closet. The earliest sneakers debuted in the 1800s and weren't much more than a canvas upper and a flexible sole made of a crazy new material--rubber. The stuff might have been new to Americans then, but for thousands of years, the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin of South America had been using latex made from the milky sap of...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467726400
• ISBN13: 9781467726405
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.8" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary