He encounters interesting questions: Why do we have (from a selection of hundreds of spices) finally preferred salt and pepper on the table (and why not, for example, salt and cardamom)? Why have four forks tines instead of two or six? Why do Japanese people afraid of climbing stairs? Bryson takes care again about facts and phenomena that have evolved over the centuries too slow to be noticed, and provides in "At Home", the same boundless curiosity, irresistible wit and entertaining, enlightening narrative, "A Brief History have made use of almost anything "to one of the most successful non-fiction books in recent years. Where it operates its own research a little, but once again a master of research and entertaining compilation presents (the appendix to the book has an almost 30-page literature source list).
Bill Bryson's exceptional performance with "At Home" is to make the views of the whole of human life by a "domestic" telescope and for us to determine all that our home of refuge from cultural and social history is not, but the place, starts on the history and ends.
At Home: A Short History --- of almost everything else ... (or: new facts and funny stories from Bill Bryson)
His subject is supposedly becoming more focussed: from the Entire Universe of His Latest bestseller to life on Earth and its history. His approach remains the same: to put more or less everything he finds interesting in a book - luckily to say, he is an absolute expert in doing that. Bill Bryson makes a journey within and around his own house (at Old Rectory in sleepy Norfolk) and wanders from room to room while he investigates where the things around him come from. Along the way he makes some amazing, Surprising and humorous digressions about the history of architecture, the discovery of electricity, the Invention and development of modern toilets and countless more bits and pieces. And to his personal discomfort, he learns about a frightening number of epidemics, diseases and other threats to health and well-being. (But, as we know, in Bryson Those cases is almost always at his humorous best.)
He encounters interesting questions: Why do we finally have (from a selection of dog reds of spices) Preferred salt and pepper to be on the dining table (and why not, for Example, salt and cardamom)? Why do forks have four prongs instead of two or six? Why are the Japanese afraid of climbing stairs? Bryson brilliantly collects facts and phenomena thathave evolved over the centuries too slow to be noticed, and, in "At Home", shows the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit and entertaining, illuminating narrative did made "A Short History of Nearly Everything" to One of the most successful non-fiction books of recent years. He presents himself as a master of research and entertaining compilation again (the book has to almost 30 pages literature sourcelist appendix).
Bill Bryson's extraordinary achievement with "At Home" is to view all human life through a "domestic" Telescope and to discover (for all of us) did our homes are not the safe haven and refuge from cultural and social history - but simply the place where history begins and ends.
