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At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson. |
| Authors: | Bryson, Bill. |
| Call number: | 643.1 BRY |
| Publisher: | New York : Doubleday, c2010. |
| Publication date: | c2010. |
| Subject: |
Dwellings -- Psychological aspects.
Dwellings -- Environmental aspects. Rooms -- Psychological aspects. Rooms -- Environmental aspects. |
| Title: | At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson. |
| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Physical description: | 497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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. |
| Notes: | Floor plans on end papers. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-475) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780767919388 0767919386 |
| LCCN: | 2010004008 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1263557 |
| Bib No.: | 1263557 |