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William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He settled in England in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a full time writer. He lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He and his family then moved to New Hampshire in America for a few years, but they have now returned to live in the UK.
In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson's hilarious first travel book, he chronicled a trip in his mother's Chevy around small town America. It was followed by Neither Here Nor There, an account of his first trip around Europe. Other travel books include the massive bestseller Notes From a Small Island, which won the 2003 World Book Day National Poll to find the book which best represented modern England, followed by A Walk in the Woods (in which Stephen Katz, his travel companion from Neither Here Nor There, made a welcome reappearance), Notes From a Big Country and Down Under.
Bill Bryson has also written several highly praised books on the English language, including Mother Tongue and Made in America. In his last book, he turned his attention to science. A Short History of Nearly Everything was lauded with critical acclaim, and became a huge bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, before going on to win the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communication Prize. His next book, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, is a memoir of growing up in 1950s America, featuring another appearance from his old friend Stephen Katz. October 8 sees the publication of A Really Short History of Nearly Everything.
- BillBryson
- 科普
- 历史
- 文化
- 散文随笔
- 文化史
- 随笔
- 比尔-布莱森
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill 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. 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. 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. 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.
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看简介以为这是一本写那些瓶瓶罐罐的科普书，没想到是一个满宏大的科普书。从一个大房子的边边角角，从调料到花草，从医疗到殖民，絮絮叨叨幽默诙谐的写了蛮厚的一本。挺适合我这种，即想了解历史又看不来枯燥的大部头的普通读者，阅读有时候就是寻找一种乐趣，这本书可以说基...
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评分这本书是在罗辑思维的活动中抢购的，一共6本书，这是我阅读的第一本，花了靠一周的时间。总的来说，这本书还是不错的，它全面叙述了我们生活中的一些用品及房子 梳妆台 厨房 幼儿房 花园 书房等的兴起，再慢慢地改进，就出现了我们现代社会中看到的样子，若是没有前人的发明及...
评分一直以为历史，或者说，那些能以“史”的形式写出来的东西，都算得上是一门“学科”，无论文理都是分类细致条理分明，动物史、植物史、天文史、世界史。当然它们也可以写得不具体又不严肃，作为通俗读物，但总的来说，每一种“史”的内部都是井井有条的，那些知识、信息是按共...
评分这本书是在罗辑思维的活动中抢购的，一共6本书，这是我阅读的第一本，花了靠一周的时间。总的来说，这本书还是不错的，它全面叙述了我们生活中的一些用品及房子 梳妆台 厨房 幼儿房 花园 书房等的兴起，再慢慢地改进，就出现了我们现代社会中看到的样子，若是没有前人的发明及...
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知识点密集哇，history of hygiene/sex/food/death/nutrition/spice trade...作为一个肥宅，很欣喜宅在家里也能有这么厚重的历史感
评分呃……跟想像的不太一样呢，就是万物捡屎第二季了相当于~
评分他真有本事把好玩的事情写得无聊
评分Bryson近来老写这种杂史，讲各种东西的由来。
评分在非学院派笔下，博物史并无令人称奇或博大之处，读来只觉人类（名义上的家居）生活的进化迂缓得不可思议，琐碎愚昧之处不可枚举。这种有意不附丽任何价值的写法个人并不讨厌，如“词源学”一般的考据癖也有些意思。
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