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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.

出版者:Doubleday
作者:Bill Bryson
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页数:544
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出版时间:2010-5-27
价格:GBP 20.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780385608275
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“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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房子既可能是怪黎叔,也可能是小萝莉,是个没有定型的装置。房屋因地理、文化环境及各国相关政策的不同,而显示出迥异的风格来。房子既可能是蜗居式胶囊公寓,也可能是宽阔的别墅牧场。万变不离其宗的一点是,房子里一定要有人。男男女女的吃喝拉撒、油盐酱醋调和成一首生活之...  

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略慢,还是Made in America比较好看。(十八十九世纪的资本主义国家人民生活真是水深火热啊。。

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Usual Bryson facts dotted with dry wit

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best of the books that i've read so far this year (of course, 2012 just started). recommended to a couple of friends whom i think would love

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被困在家看这本书挺切题的。主要的切入点是作者建于1851年的住所,拓展开去讲了很多17-19世纪英国(捎带美国)的发展变迁。本来会期待更多更古的东西,比如罗马,但是大概是罗马传统真的丢尽,所以实际也没有提起太多。以后再去有钱人家的房子——我很爱的景点——时大概会有更多似曾相识的片段。岁月的长河里人类短暂的悲欢,我们都是无声的演员。

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