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At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Door Bill Bryson

Categorie
Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer
#362796-KO35
Titel
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Auteur
Bryson, Bill
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York etc., Doubleday
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
038553728X
ISBN13
9780385537285
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous (full page) illustrations mostly in colour), 4to.
Samenvatting
From one of our most beloved authors, a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home? now richly illustrated with more than three hundred images.

National bestseller At Home is Bill Bryson? s epic chronicle of domestic history. In this handsome new edition, his riveting room-by-room journey of discovery around his house? a Victorian parsonage in southern England? is enhanced by more than three hundred carefully curated illustrations, the large majority
of them in full color. As he did in the hugely successful A Short History of Nearly Everything: Illustrated Edition, Bryson complements his sparkling prose with striking illustrations selected from a wide array of sources to create a feast for the eyes as well as the mind. He has one of the liveliest, most inquisi... (Lees verder)tive brains on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly mundane into an occasion for the most diverting exposition imaginable. When you? ve finished this book, you will see your house? and your daily life? in a new and revelatory light.
In Bill Bryson? s hands, the bathroom provides the occasion for the history of hygiene; the bedroom for an account of sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen for a discussion of nutrition and the spice trade. From architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the telephone to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets? and the brilliant, creative, and often eccentric minds behind them? Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world ends up in our houses, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
Pagina's
553
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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