At home : a short history of private life
Title:
At home : a short history of private life
Author:
Bryson, Bill.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
497 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything) takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
General Note:
Floor plans on end papers.
Language:
English
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 attic.
ISBN:
9780767919388
Format :
Book
