En casa

Bill Bryson occurred one day the idea that we dedicated much more time to study the battles and wars of history than to reflect on what is made of the story. Centuries of people developing their daily tasks, eating, sleeping and trying to live with more comforts, and that most of the main discoveries of humanity are in the very structure of the houses we inhabit. This was what inspired him to start a trip through his own home, a Nordfolk rectory travel, and walk from room to room reflecting on the origin of the daily objects of life. In his journey he carried out a prodigious amount of research on the history of absolutely everything, from architecture to electricity, from food conservation to epidemics. Bryson applies the same insatiable curiosity and the same irresistible ingenuity that made a brief history of almost all one of the most praised works of recent years, and offers one of the most entertaining and enlightening books about the history of our way of life.