Download Audiobook At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson in English

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From probably the most beloved authors of our time—greater than six million copies of his books have been bought on this nation alone – an interesting tour into the historical past behind the place we name dwelling. “Homes aren’t refuges from historical past. They’re the place historical past finally ends up.” Invoice Bryson and his household dwell in a Victorian parsonage in part of England the place nothing of any nice significance has occurred because the Romans decamped. But in the future, he started to think about how little or no he knew in regards to the peculiar issues of life as he discovered it in that snug dwelling. To treatment this, he fashioned the concept of journeying about his home from room to room to “write a historical past of the world with out leaving dwelling.” The toilet gives the event for a historical past of hygiene; the bed room, intercourse, dying, and sleep; the kitchen, diet and the spice commerce; and so forth, as Bryson reveals how every has fig­ured within the evolution of personal life. No matter occurs on this planet, he demonstrates, leads to our home, within the paint and the pipes and the pillows and each merchandise of furnishings. Invoice Bryson has one of many liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and he’s a grasp at turning the seemingly remoted or mundane reality into an event for essentially the most diverting exposi­tion possible. His wit and sheer prose fluency make At Dwelling probably the most entertaining books ever written about non-public life.