At Home: A Short History of Private Life

In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world eventually ends up in our home, in the paint, the pipes, the pillows, and every item of furniture. Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and his sheer prose fluency makes At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.

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• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way
• Notes from a Small Island
• Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
• Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
• The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
• The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
• In a Sunburned Country