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Livres anciens et modernes

Bryson, Bill

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Doubleday Canada, 2010

30,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Année
2010
ISBN
0385661630
Lieu d'édition
Toronto
Auteur
Bryson, Bill
Éditeurs
Doubleday Canada
Edition
1st Canadian Edition
Thème
Domestic life houses homes Life Houses architecture Social, History Private Life
Description
New
Description
H
Jaquette
Oui
Etat de conservation
Neuf
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. And that most f the key discoveries for humankind can be found in the very fabric of the houses in which we live. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, wandering from room to room considering how the ordinary things in life came to be. Along the way he did a prodigious amount of research on the history of anything and everything, from architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets; and on the brilliant, creative and often eccentric minds behind them. And he discovered that, although there may seem to be nothing as unremarkable as our domestic lives, there is a huge amount of history, interest and excitement - and even a little danger, lurking in the corners of every room. From architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the telephone to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets - and the brillilant, creative, and often eccentric talents 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."--Page 2 of cover497p.illus bibliography, index. Plans on endpapers.