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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.
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- 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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好欢乐的书 第一章，从英国一所教区长寓所开始，讲述维多利时代时代的一些事，首届世博会，水晶宫，工业文明初期的盛景，美国的机器创新，散在各个圣公会教区收地租的神职人员悠闲富足的生活，许多人得有闲暇研究近代科学一不小心成了某个领域的开山祖师爷。还有人专心于吃，...
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...
评分好欢乐的书 第一章，从英国一所教区长寓所开始，讲述维多利时代时代的一些事，首届世博会，水晶宫，工业文明初期的盛景，美国的机器创新，散在各个圣公会教区收地租的神职人员悠闲富足的生活，许多人得有闲暇研究近代科学一不小心成了某个领域的开山祖师爷。还有人专心于吃，...
评分03年，我读到一本对我影响深远的书——《西方文明的另类历史》。这本书或许不是同类作品中的上乘之作，但它在恰当的时间出现，让我从“大江东去浪淘尽千古风流人物”的大历史模式中解脱出来，并指引我遇见一部部更精彩的作品，让十年之后的我，一看到比尔•布莱森这样的...
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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。
评分知识点密集哇，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
评分我知道这才是生活真正的意义，可是读起来怎么不觉得有趣呢
评分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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