AT HOME: A SHORT HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE [SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITION]

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 inquisitive 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. Imagem Meramente Ilustrativa.