At Home. A Short History Of Private Life

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Black Swan
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: Reprint

Description: 699 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers 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.

ISBN: 9780552772556