At Home: A Short History Of Private Life Illustrated Edition

Author: Bill Bryson

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  • : 80.00 NZD
  • : 9780857521385
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
  • : Doubleday
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  • : 0.833
  • : July 2012
  • : 240mm X 156mm X 45mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 65.0
  • : November 2012
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  • : Bill Bryson
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  • : Hardback with Dust Jacket
  • : Illustrated edition
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  • : B&W illustrations throughout
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Description

What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Norfolk rectory, to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be. And what he discovered are surprising connections to anything from the Crystal Palace to the Eiffel Tower, from scurvy to body-snatching, from bedbugs to the Industrial Revolution, and just about everything else that has ever happened, resulting in one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live, enhanced in this new edition by hundreds of stunning photographs and illustrations.

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A new and beautifully illustrated edition of the bestselling, book by Bill Bryson - does for the history of the way we live what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science.

Author description

Bill Bryson's bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent, A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society's Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically lauded bestseller was At Home: a Short History of Private Life: his new book One Summer: America 1927 is published in September 2013. He was born in the American Mid-West, and lives in the UK. Visit his website: www.billbryson.co.uk