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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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初识比尔布莱森是通过他的“小不列颠札记”，没有见过作者本人，但是通过那本书不难得出结论，他是个有点小性格，脾气有点差，固执己见而且善于对自己揶揄过头的自以为是的老头。或者是我错了，他的书让我觉得他是这样的。 所以我继续看了他的“走遍烤焦国”和“东西莫辨逛欧洲...
评分Bryson's world consists of only two countries: Britain and the USA. Other countries and civilisations are vaguely "there", but perhaps doesn't make a difference to the shaping of our world today. Therefore, I seriously doubt that "the first xxx of the world...
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...
评分初识比尔布莱森是通过他的“小不列颠札记”，没有见过作者本人，但是通过那本书不难得出结论，他是个有点小性格，脾气有点差，固执己见而且善于对自己揶揄过头的自以为是的老头。或者是我错了，他的书让我觉得他是这样的。 所以我继续看了他的“走遍烤焦国”和“东西莫辨逛欧洲...
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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。
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。。
评分Bill Bryson never fails to surprise me with his curiosity and humor. He definitely writes like a journalist, think like a journalist, of course, a very good journalist.
评分略慢，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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