"At Home: A Short History of Private Life" (Doubleday, $28.95), by Bill Bryson: He's hiked the Appalachian Trail and toured three of the seven continents in the name of book research, so Bill Bryson can be forgiven for not leaving home to write his latest.
"At Home: A Short History of Private Life" takes readers on a journey through every room of the Victorian parsonage in England where the author lives. Each chapter is named after a room or a part of the grounds ("The Drawing Room," ''The Garden," ''The Bedroom," etc.) and used as a jumping-off point for Bryson to explore the origins of everything from electricity to ice to crop fertilizers.
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