At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.

Main entry:

Bryson, Bill.

Title & Author:

At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.

Publication:

Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2010.

Description:

497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The year -- The setting -- The hall -- The kitchen -- The scullery and the larder -- The fuse box -- 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.

Summary:

"From architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the telephone to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets - and the brillilant, creative, and often eccentric talents behind them - Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world ends up in our houses, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture."--Page 2 of cover.

ISBN:

9780385661638
0385661630
9780385661645
0385661649
9780767919395
0767919394

Subject:

Dwellings Psychological aspects.
Rooms Psychological aspects.
Dwellings Social aspects.
Rooms Social aspects.
Social history.
Habitations Aspect psychologique.
Pièces (Constructions) Aspect psychologique.
Habitations Aspect social.
Pièces (Constructions) Aspect social.
Pièces (Architecture) Aspect psychologique.
Pièces (Architecture) Aspect social.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269936
Call No.: BIB 202438
Status: Available

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