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Lingua: inglese
Editore: Penguin Global, 2005
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A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Codice articolo GOR006435496
- Titolo
- Clean And Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom And Wc
- Autore
- Wright, Lawrence
- Editore
- Penguin Global
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2005
- Condizione
- Fair
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 0141390352
- ISBN 13
- 9780141390352
- Peso dell'articolo
- 340 grammi
CLEAN AND DECENT, says the author, 'is meant to entertain, even if scholarship does keep breaking through'. Subtitled The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-closet, and of sundry Habits, Fashions and Accessories of the Toilet it is a fascinating excursion into the household's most private room. Who would have supposed that the Romans had lagged hot-water pipes? That Queen Elizabeth I had a valve water-closet? That Louis XIV had cushions in his bath? This informative and hilarious book leads the reader to believe that more may be learnt about the past from bathrooms rather than battlefields, and that patterns of social history are mirrored in the bathwater or found locked in the water-closet.
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Informazioni sull’autore
The author was a Royal Academician, but he also wrote three books of domestic history/economy: CLEAN AND DECENT, WARM AND SNUG (a history of the bed) and HOME FIRES BURNING (a history of central heating).
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