At Home, written by Bill Bryson, takes us on a fascinating tour of the most important space in our life, our home.we take our living space for granted. if it could talk, it would have a woundrous story to tell.

The content is based on the prodigious reseach on as diverse subjects as architecture,electricity,epidemics and food preservation.

In spite of the daunting nature of the above, Bill Bryson's storytelling skills make this book eminently readable.

anyone who has a home!

his descriptions of the gardens. The characters involved went to extra ordinary lengths to collect their botanical species.I will never take a garden for granted after reading these acoounts.

discuss it immediately.

the importance of my home.

Bill bryson is a spell binding storyteller.

it gave me a lot of insight in the making of a house.

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