At Home unabridged audiobook

Resumen del libro

This is Bill Bryson's entertaining and illuminating book about the history of the way we live - complete, unabridged and read by the author. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.

Along the way he researched the history of anything and everything: from architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets. And he discovered that there is a huge amount of history, interest and excitement - and even a little danger - lurking in the corners of every home. Where "A Short History of Nearly Everything" was a sweeping panorama of the world, the universe and everything, "At Home" peers at private life through a microscope.

Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made "A Short History of Nearly Everything" one of the most lauded books of the last decade.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p BILL BRYSON (Des Moines, Iowa, en 1951). Inició la carrera de Periodismo en Estados Unidos, pero la interrumpió para viajar por Europa. En 1977 se instaló en North Yorkshire, Inglaterra, donde residió dos décadas y trabajó en periódicos como x{0026}lt;i The Timesx{0026}lt;/i o x{0026}lt;i The Independentx{0026}lt;/i . Aunque también se ha dedicado a la enseñanza (llegó a ser rector de la Universidad de Durham), actualmente se dedica sobre todo a escribir. Además de x{0026}lt;i El cuerpo humanox{0026}lt;/i es autor de, entre otros libros superventas, x{0026}lt;i Una breve historia de casi todox{0026}lt;/i (Premio Aventis de libros de ciencia y finalista del Premio Samuel Johnson); x{0026}lt;i Un paseo por el bosquex{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i En casa: una breve historia de la vida privadax{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i En las antípodasx{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i Aventuras y desventuras del Chico Centellax{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i 1927: un verano que cambió el mundox{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Shakespearex{0026}lt;/i , todos publicados por RBA.x{0026}lt;/p