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Title	:	At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Author	:	Bill Bryson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First U.S. Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 497 pages
Published	:	October 5th 2010 by Doubleday (first published May 27th 2010)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Audiobook. Humor

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Bill Bryson

Hardcover | Pages: 497 pages

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“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. 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.
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Original Title:	At Home: A Short History of Private Life
ISBN:	0767919386 (ISBN13: 9780767919388)
Edition Language:	English
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Campbell, Arthur Munby, Joseph Bazalgette, Isaac Ware, Brian Ayers, John Landis Mason, Richard Morris Hunt, Gordon Childe, Antony Dale, Dr. Richard Russell, Hermann Sprengel, E. V. McCollum, Carol Heaton, Robert Kerr, Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William G. Blauvelt, Dennis Pogue, William Greenwell, John Fraser, Addison Mizner, Elias Howe, William Grove, Emily Cockayne, Ötzi, Bryan Donkin, Hamish Hamilton, Lords Carlisle, Alice Vanderbilt, Nicolas-François Appert, Thomas Crapper, Annie Kaplan, Josiah Wedgwood III, King George IV, Joseph Swan, Judith Flanders, Isabella Beeton, Stratton Strawless, George Neville, Humphry Clinker, Calvert Vaux, David Macpherson, E. L. Drake, William Beckford, Baker Brown, Samuel Rogers, Silbury Hill, John Vanbrugh, Daniel Pincot, Eleanor Stanley, Edmund Cartwright, Sutton Courtenay, Peter Willis, John Claudius Loudon, Henry Cartwright, Mary Mercer, James M. 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This is a very informative book about everyday furnishings in and around people's homes and how they evolved over the centuries. Bryson mentions that one huge English mansion had a room devoted entirely to cleaning bedpans.

For Bill Bryson, this is poor: What could have a fascinating, amusing and insightful social history turns out to be a meandering series of not very interesting or particularly entertaining passages on the vague subject of the 'home' and 'private life'. The whole book unfortunately just feels poorly edited, unfocussed and directionless.As a fan of Bill Bryson's books, this one came as a somewhat of a disappointment. Having now read his subsequent books - it is good to know that he is once again

This is pretty fascinating and I generally like Bill Bryson, but the book is heavily concentrated on the fascinating discoveries/inventions/accomplishments of men. Women are only mentioned for the silly things they did as the wives of these men or for writing silly books Bryson describes as "unreadable then and probably unreadable now." Apparently in all his exhaustive research on the history of private life, Bryson found no significant contributions by women.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before. Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private LifeBryson uses his own family's Victorian parsonage to map out the history (mainly focused on the 18th - 20th Century) of the private life. His discussion of specific rooms ends up allowing Bryson to tangent off onto related topics as wide and varied as sex, family, shit, medicine, architecture, makeup, rope-making,

If Bill Bryson and Sarah Vowell wrote all the history texts, and Mary Roach wrote all the science texts, our society would be more educated and amused than anywhere on earth. I want to say that this book was a greatly informative text on the history of sanitation, architecture, anglo-saxon culture, farming, growth of cities, and society in general, but I'm afraid that would put you off. This is the story of his house in England. He takes us through each room discussing the history, scientific

I have a brain crush on Bill Bryson. I find his books entertaining, insightful and delightfully humorous. "At Home" did not disappoint, giving a fascinating, rambling, Everything-But-the-Kitchen-Sink view of world history.The book is structured into chapters based on the different parts of a house, such as the kitchen, the drawing room, the cellar, the bedroom, etc. In the introduction, Bryson explains that he and his wife moved into a former church rectory in a village in eastern England, and

I came across a review that dismissed Bill Bryson's work as being entertaining fact collection that doesn't present anything new. I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, if not the implication. There is nothing wrong with entertaining fact collection, and, in my mind, everything right with it. In this age of information overload, the kind of clear-minded research and fact-sorting he performs for his readers is manna sent from communication heaven. The ability (and the willingness) to collect,