![]() ![]() The reader will find that instead of moving into the well-designed villas that the Romans left after their departure, the English locals had a different idea. In chapters named for the parts of a house, Bryson comes up with surprising new facts about how things came to be as they are now. Incorporated into the history of how we lived is the history of associated words, which is always interesting to those who enjoy reading. Bill Bryson has plumbed all the findings and theories of scholars and archeologists and presented them in an easy, affable style. Most of us think we know the answer, but be prepared to look at everything in a new and very entertaining way. Where and how we live reflects who we are or who we would like to be. ![]() Inspired by a Victorian parsonage in the county of Norfolk which he and his family rented, Bryson began to pose the question of how mankind came to live in the modern homes we use today.Īt Home: A Short History of Private Life is going to turn upside down every idea preached in social studies classes, and the reader will find new questions arising about how we came to live as we do in the twenty-first century. For readers who enjoy finding new ways of looking at history, Bill Bryson's newest book is going to fascinate and entertain. ![]()
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