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

536 pages | first published 2010

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Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sl...
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