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At home : a short history of private life  Cover Image Book Book

At home : a short history of private life

Bryson, Bill. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780767919388 (hc.) :
  • ISBN: 0767919386 :
  • Physical Description: print
    497 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a Rondom House Group company, London"--T.p. verso.
Floor plans on end papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-475) and index.
Formatted 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.
Subject: Dwellings -- Psychological aspects
Dwellings -- Environmental aspects
Rooms -- Psychological aspects
Rooms -- Environmental aspects

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Salt Spring Island Public Library.

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Salt Spring Island Public Library 643.1 BRY (Text) 33123009092421 Non-fiction Volume hold Available -

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