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A Short History of Private Life
出版Doubleday Canada, 2010-10-05
主題Architecture / GeneralHistory / Social HistorySocial Science / Customs & Traditions
ISBN03073761179780307376114
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6dqIDZNdHTMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A fascinating work of what you might call domestic science: our homes, how they work, and the fascinating history of how they got that way.

Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as found in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to "write a history of the world without leaving home." The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade. Bryson shows how each has shaped the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demostrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.