At Home: A short history of private life

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Bill Bryson

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Storia d'Europa

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William McGurry (nato l'8 dicembre 1951) è un autore britannico americano di libri di saggistica su argomenti tra cui viaggi, inglese e scienza. Nato negli Stati Uniti, residente in Gran Bretagna per la maggior parte della sua vita adulta, è tornato negli Stati Uniti tra il 1995 e il 2003 e detiene la cittadinanza americana e britannica. Ha servito come Rettore della Durham University dal 2005 al 2011.

Bryson è salito alla ribalta nel Regno Unito pubblicando e accompagnando la serie televisiva Notes from a Small Island (1995), un'esplorazione della Gran Bretagna. Ha ottenuto ancora una volta ampi riconoscimenti per aver pubblicato A Short History of Almost Everything (2003), un libro ampiamente acclamato per la sua comunicazione accademica accessibile. Nell'ottobre 2020 ha annunciato di essersi "ritirato" dallo scrivere libri.

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At Home: A short history of private life libro pdf letto e scaricato da Bill Bryson

“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 began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.

 

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