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At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryson, Bill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dwellings--Psychological aspects.
- Dwellings.
- Dwellings--Environmental aspects.
- Rooms--Psychological aspects.
- Rooms.
- Rooms--Environmental aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 497 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2010]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-475) and index.
- Floor plans on end papers.
- ISBN:
- 9780767919388
- 0767919386
- OCLC:
- 503596086
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