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Oct 4, 2011 · 4.5 5,949 ratings. Editors' pick Best Nonfiction. See all formats and editions. In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted.
- Bill Bryson
- $13.17
- Anchor
May 27, 2010 · 3.99. 94,039 ratings7,326 reviews. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” 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.
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It was published in May 2010. The book covers topics of the commerce, architecture, technology and geography that have shaped homes into what they are today, told through a series of "tours" through Bryson's Norfolk rectory that quickly digress into the history of each particular room.
- Bill Bryson
- 536
- 2010
- 27 May 2010
Oct 4, 2011 · Bill Bryson. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Oct 4, 2011 - Architecture - 592 pages. In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a...
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.
May 27, 2010 · At Home. : Bill Bryson. Transworld, May 27, 2010 - History - 704 pages. In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful...
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