At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.
At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.
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New York : Random House, c2010.
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LP/643.1/BRY
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English
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768 p. (large print) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The year -- The setting -- The hall -- The kitchen -- The scullery and the larder -- The fusebox -- The drawing room -- The dining room -- The cellar -- The passage -- The study -- The garden -- The plum room -- The stairs -- The bedroom -- The bathroom -- The dressing room -- The nursery -- The att...
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Publisher
New York : Random House, c2010.
Edition
Large print ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2010.
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Summary
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, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. And that most of the key discoveries for humankin...
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At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.
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"Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-730) and index.
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c2010.
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LP/643.1/BRY
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74VvdXDpdyxb
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ISBN
9780375434310 (lg. print : pbk.)
DDC
643.1
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991005915009702626
