At Home Bill Bryson. A short history of Private Life.

At Home Bill Bryson. A short history of Private Life.

National bestseller At Home is Bill Brysons epic chronicle of domestic history. In this handsome edition, his riveting room-by-room journey of discovery around his house, a Victorian parsonage in southern England, is enhanced by carefully curated illustrations. He has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive brains on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly mundane into an occasion for the most diverting exposition imaginable. When you have finished this book, you will see your house and your daily life in a new and revelatory light.

 In Bill Brysons hands, the bathroom provides the occasion for the history of hygiene; the bedroom for an account of sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen for a discussion of nutrition and the spice trade. From architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the telephone to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets and the brilliant, creative, and often eccentric minds behind them. Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world ends up in our houses, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.

Has illustrations.

Published: Doubleday Canada.  Edition 2010. ISBN 978-0-385-66163-8

Details: Hard cover, large size with dust jacket.  Consists of 497 pages.  Size 16cm x 24cm. Thick 3,8cm. Weight 940 grams.

Condition: Book in very good condition, inside pages not loose or torn. Front page has an inscription.

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