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,
Dilihat	436 kali
No Rak	Tel-U Bandung - Gedung Manterawu Lantai 5 : Rak 9b

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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.