Title:
At home : a short history of private life
JLCTITLE245:
Bill Bryson.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, c2010.
Physical Description:
497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780767919388
General Note:
Floor plans on end papers.
Abstract:
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.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-475) and index.
Geographic Term:
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.