At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Audio Non-Fiction

Bill Bryson reads the whole of his entertaining and illuminating book about the history of the way we live. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be. Along the way he researched the history of anything and everything; from architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets. And he discovered that there is a huge amount of history, interest and excitement - and even a little danger - lurking in the corners of every home. Where "A Short History of Nearly Everything" was a sweeping panorama of the world, the universe and everything, "At Home" peers at private life through a microscope.

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  • : 111774
  • : 111774
  • : 9781408427620
  • : May 2010
  • : United Kingdom
  • : audio