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Bryson is a writer whose company is always delightful. If you choose to
travel with him, whether across the Appalachian Trail, or through
Europe, or around the universe, you have chosen a companion whose
curiosity about the world is infectious, and whose efforts to satisfy
that curiosity are intelligent, generous, and a pleasure to share.
In At Home, Bryson takes us on a journey through his own house, a Victorian building in eastern England, and examines it room by room. He contemplates the history that enters our homes and settles there, how every aspect and detail of the places where we live are the result of the choices, tastes, and accomplishments of people who lived before us. The history of windows, the wild and complicated spice trade, the origin of the flushing toilet, the terrors of syphilis, the astonishing development of artificial light – Bryson takes all of this on with wit and a taste for adventure. This book is funny. It’s stuffed with odd facts and odd people, all offered in a way that makes you see the simplest, most familiar, most mundane objects as the treasures that they really are. -- Megan K. |
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