CD At Home A Short History Of Of Private Life Bill Bryson

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This is Bill Bryson's entertaining & illuminating book about the history of the way we live
- complete, unabridged & read by the author. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles & 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 & everything: from architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets. & he discovered that there is a huge amount of history, interest & excitement
- & 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 & everything, At Home peers at private life through a microscope. Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose & masterful storytelling that made "A Short History of Nearly Everything" one of the most lauded books of the last decade.