At Home: A short history of private life (Bryson) Bill Bryson - Black Swan 2010

What does history really consists of?. And where did all these normal activities take place?. 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.

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