Ask the Past Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear |
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| Author:
| Archibald, Elizabeth P. |
| Read by:
| Archibald, Elizabeth P.
Malcolm, Graeme |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4789-8711-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books
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| Imprint: | Hachette Books |
| Book Format: | Downloadable audio file |
| List Price: | USD $35.00USD $14.99 |
Book Description:
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Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward. Based on the popular blog,
Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald,
Ask the Past offers a delightful array of advice both wise...
More Description Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward.
Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald, Ask the Past offers a delightful array of advice both wise and weird.
Whether it's eighteenth-century bedbug advice (sprinkle bed with gunpowder and let smolder), budget fashion tips of the Middle Ages (save on the clothes, splurge on the purse) or a sixteenth-century primer on seduction (hint: do no pass gas), Ask the Past is a wildly entertaining guide to life from the people who lived it first.