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Item Details
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CLEAN AND DECENT
THE FASCINATING HISTORY OF THE BATHROOM AND WC |
| By: |
Lawrence Wright |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0141390352 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141390352 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
26 October, 2000 |
| Series: |
Penguin Classic History S. |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
This entertaining book leads the reader to believe that more may be learnt from the past from bathrooms rather than battlefields. For example, who would have supposed that the Romans has lagged hot-water pipes, or that Louix XIV had cushions in his bath? |
| Synopsis: |
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? that sponges have sex? This book, says the author, "is meant to entertain, even if scholarship does keep breaking through". This book offers an excursion into the household's most private room. Informative and hilarious, it suggests that more may be learnt about the past from bathrooms than battlefields, and that patterns of social history may be mirrored in the bathwater or found locked in the water-closet. |
| Illustrations: |
line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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