At Home : A Short History of Private Life Writing Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan

Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains

and often requires a context which is not always immediately obvious

to where you want to be in the future

The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small

hope and fear

At Home : A Short History of Private Life Writing Earnest and naive solicitor JonathanIn "At Home", Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made "A Short History of Nearly Everything" one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of