At Home  -  Bill Bryson

A Short History of Private Life

KORTE INHOUD

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 Noifolk 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...
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2011 Uitgever: Rodopi Editions 700 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  198x129x45 ISBN-10: 0552772550 ISBN-13: 9780552772556