Reading & Book Signing Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on Seneca)
Beloved author Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, and the new At Home) lives in a Victorian parsonage in England where not much has happened since the Romans decamped. That is, until the day Bryson decided to write a history of the world without leaving home. And now, his bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade. Journeying through the rooms of his house, Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life, demonstrating that whatever happens in the world ends up in our house.
Tickets are free with the purchase of At Home from University Book Store; otherwise tickets are $5. Books and tickets are available beginning October 5.
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life(DOUBLEDAY)
Reading & Book Signing
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle (Enter on Seneca)
Beloved author Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, and the new At Home) lives in a Victorian parsonage in England where not much has happened since the Romans decamped. That is, until the day Bryson decided to write a history of the world without leaving home. And now, his bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade. Journeying through the rooms of his house, Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life, demonstrating that whatever happens in the world ends up in our house.
Tickets are free with the purchase of At Home from University Book Store; otherwise tickets are $5. Books and tickets are available beginning October 5.