At Home
Subtitle: A short history of private life
Edition: Black Swan edition (1)
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780552777353
Copyright date: 2010
Description: What does history really consists 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 Norfolk 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.