What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business — sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home.
This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Noifolk rectory, to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be. And what he discovered are surprising connections to anything from the Crystal Palace to the Eiffel Tower, from scurvy to …
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business — sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home.
This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Noifolk rectory, to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be. And what he discovered are surprising connections to anything from the Crystal Palace to the Eiffel Tower, from scurvy to body- snatching, from bedbugs to the Industrial Revolution, and just about everything else that has ever happened, resulting in one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.
Paperback, 700 páginas
Idioma English
Publicado el 6 de enero de 2011 por Transworld Publishers.
Me ha costado mucho la primera parte, si bien es todo muy interesante, me parecía muy denso y sin una meta clara. Una vez que he aceptado que el libro era una colección de anécdotas y que lo podría haber titulado de cualquier manera, ya he empezado a disfrutarlo.
