At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Bill Bryson

Informasi Umum

Kode

25.01.1349

Klasifikasi

392.36 - Dwelling Places

Jenis

Buku - Circulation (Dapat Dipinjam)

Subjek

Dwellings-psychological Aspects, Rooms-environmental Aspects,

No. Rak

Dilihat

51 kali

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Abstraksi

Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.