出版社: Doubleday
副标题: A Short History of Private Life
出版年: 2010-5-27
页数: 544
定价: GBP 20.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385608275
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“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
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 he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he ...
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
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 he found it 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; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
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作者简介 · · · · · ·
William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He settled in England in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a full time writer. He lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He and his family then moved to New Hampshire in America for a few years, but they have now returned to live in the UK.
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William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He settled in England in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a full time writer. He lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He and his family then moved to New Hampshire in America for a few years, but they have now returned to live in the UK.
In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson's hilarious first travel book, he chronicled a trip in his mother's Chevy around small town America. It was followed by Neither Here Nor There, an account of his first trip around Europe. Other travel books include the massive bestseller Notes From a Small Island, which won the 2003 World Book Day National Poll to find the book which best represented modern England, followed by A Walk in the Woods (in which Stephen Katz, his travel companion from Neither Here Nor There, made a welcome reappearance), Notes From a Big Country and Down Under.
Bill Bryson has also written several highly praised books on the English language, including Mother Tongue and Made in America. In his last book, he turned his attention to science. A Short History of Nearly Everything was lauded with critical acclaim, and became a huge bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, before going on to win the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communication Prize. His next book, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, is a memoir of growing up in 1950s America, featuring another appearance from his old friend Stephen Katz. October 8 sees the publication of A Really Short History of Nearly Everything.
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0 有用 神秘数字53 2019-06-23 13:49:22
他真有本事把好玩的事情写得无聊
0 有用 quantang 2020-12-02 20:47:00
可以了,以后不看 bill bryson 了
0 有用 漱石斋主 2019-04-30 15:56:47
艰难地看完了,有些时候跑题太过,总的来说很有趣,算是豆知识集合体
0 有用 年糕 2023-02-20 14:50:31 马耳他
发散性的泛知识,很有趣
0 有用 hanena 2012-01-22 11:17:49
best of the books that i've read so far this year (of course, 2012 just started). recommended to a couple of friends whom i think would love
0 有用 小小 2023-11-24 14:39:02 泰国
读的时候觉得如果把时间利用起来是可以博览群书的,读完以后又好像什么都不记得了。
0 有用 年糕 2023-02-20 14:50:31 马耳他
发散性的泛知识,很有趣
0 有用 Hilda 2021-06-28 21:31:32
感觉无论看到什么都能写出一段话来,带着小幽默的小故事。虽然说有一点絮絮叨叨的,但慢慢读还是挺有趣的。
0 有用 quantang 2020-12-02 20:47:00
可以了,以后不看 bill bryson 了
0 有用 Alkis_Tangelis 2020-11-29 13:53:22
full of ironies and unexpected incidents about normal life in history... some people may challenge the authenticity of those fragmented events, well it is a legitimate point, but does 100%-genuine his... full of ironies and unexpected incidents about normal life in history... some people may challenge the authenticity of those fragmented events, well it is a legitimate point, but does 100%-genuine history exist? does it really matter? (展开)