Secondly he does have a tendency to repeat some items from his earlier books, not sure if this intentional or not, but it is a bit annoying, if like me, you have read all his output.
Many of his older books were read by Kerry Shale, and very good they are to. He is not a bad reader, but at times tends to drone, I do wish authors would leave reading there books to the people trained to do so. My only two gripes (and why I did not give it 5 stars) are firstly it is read by the author. see what I mean random, but it has to be said mostly fun. He uses his house here to take us on a journey to each room, then onward to tell us for instance the story of archaeology or the life of the inventor Alexander Graham Bell or the origin of underwear. However since he has ceased travelling he now writes books such as this and many previously, basically packed with interesting facts and historical anecdotes. Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose, and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade. Where A Short History of Nearly Everything was a sweeping panorama of the world, the universe and everything, At Home peers at private life through a microscope.
And he discovered that there is a huge amount of history, interest and excitement - and even a little danger - lurking in the corners of every home. Along the way, he researched the history of anything and everything, from architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets.
This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be. Here is Bill Bryson’s entertaining and illuminating book about the history of the way we live - complete, unabridged and read by the author.īill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business.
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