Eine kurze Geschichte der alltäglichen Dinge

Understanding the world without stepping outside your front door. What is there left to write after the story of almost everything? The story of almost everything else, of course. Bill Bryson has taken a look around his home and asked himself: Why do we live the way we do? Why are salt and pepper on the table, and why does our fork have four prongs? But it’s not just stories about beds, sofas, and kitchen stoves. The history of the home is also always one of great discoveries and adventures: without the World Exhibition in London, there might be no water closet, and without the great explorers, there would be neither coffee nor tea or cocoa for breakfast. Bill Bryson shows us our home like we’ve never seen it before. And we understand a little more about why it is the way it is.