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At Home

At Home
Author
Bill Bryson
Subjects
cosmetics, history of cotton, spinning jenny...
Date read
May 2010

Synopsis

At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a history of domestic life written by Bill Bryson. It was published in May 2010. The book covers topics of the commerce, architecture, technology and geography that have shaped homes into what they are today, told through a series of "tours" through Bryson's Norfolk rectory that quickly digress into the history of each particular room.

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