At home
Subtitle: A Short History of Private Life
Edition: Black Swan edition (5)
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780552772556
Copyright date: 2010
Description: What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business — sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home.

This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Noifolk rectory, to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be. And what he discovered are surprising connections to anything from the Crystal Palace to the Eiffel Tower, from scurvy to body- snatching, from bedbugs to the Industrial Revolution, and just about everything else that has ever happened, resulting in one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 17; label: 1
title: The Year
pagenum: 25; label: 2
title: The Setting
pagenum: 54; label: 3
title: The Hall
pagenum: 76; label: 4
title: The Kitchen
pagenum: 106; label: 5
title: The Scullery and Larder
pagenum: 134; label: 6
title: The Fusebox
pagenum: 167; label: 7
title: The Drawing Room
pagenum: 201; label: 8
title: The Dining Room
pagenum: 240; label: 9
title: The Cellar
pagenum: 278; label: 10
title: The Passage
pagenum: 307; label: 11
title: The Study
pagenum: 341; label: 12
title: The Garden
pagenum: 365; label: 13
title: The Plum Room
pagenum: 407; label: 14
title: The Stairs
pagenum: 437; label: 15
title: The Bedroom
pagenum: 454; label: 16
title: The Bathroom
pagenum: 486; label: 17
title: The Dressing Room
pagenum: 527; label: 18
title: The Nursery
pagenum: 566; label: 19
title: The Attic
pagenum: 605; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 633; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 667; title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: 669; title: Index
pagenum: 673