At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Bill Bryson

nonfiction history challenging funny informative slow-paced

16 hours, 33 minutes | first published 2010

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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 bega...
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