![]() Born an American, he was a resident of North Yorkshire, UK, for most of his professional life before moving back to the US in 1995. William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science. Currently-lives in Norfolk, England, UK.His wit and sheer prose fluency make At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about 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.īill Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly isolated or mundane fact into an occasion for the most diverting exposition imaginable. 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. 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. They are where history ends up.īill 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. ![]()
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