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A Meg Years in a Day

A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Rock Age to the Telephone Age

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Who invented beds? When did nosotros first cleaning our teeth? How quondam are vino and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the offset clock?

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Who invented beds? When did nosotros starting time cleaning our teeth? How erstwhile are vino and beer? Which came outset: the toilet seat or toilet newspaper? What was the first clock?

Every 24-hour interval, from the moment our alarm clock wakes the states in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. Structured around one ordinary day, A Meg Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we accept for granted. In this gloriously entertaining romp through human history, Greg Jenner explores the gradual—and often unexpected—development of our daily routines.

This is not a story of wars, politics, or dandy events. Instead, Jenner has scoured Roman rubbish bins, Egyptian tombs, and Victorian sewers to bring us the almost intriguing, surprising, and sometimes downright dizzy historical nuggets from our past.

Drawn from beyond the world, spanning a one thousand thousand years of humanity, this book is a smorgasbord of historical delights. It is a history of all those things yous e'er wondered about—and many you accept never considered. It is the story of your life, one meg years in the making.

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St. Martin'south Griffin

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"[Jenner] crafts some fine aphorisms ('History doesn't repeat itself—people do'), and information technology would be a staggeringly learned person who could not glean anything new from this work." —The Wall Street Journal

"Jenner has packed a tremendous amount of historical facts into each brusque, punchy segment, laced with a adept dose of humor. For those fascinated by odd bits of historical trivia and the development of modern-solar day life, Jenner's book provides an entertaining, informative and highly detailed read." —Shelf Awareness (starred review)

"Told with a quest for the quirky, a zest for satire and some lovely British idioms --- a bathroom is a bog, a kiss is a snog, a cat is a moggy --- Jenner's lively look at us through the ages is spring to bring on some grimaces, smiles, perhaps even a blush or 2. ... A Million Years in a Day delivers a laugh and a lesson on nearly every page." —Volume Reporter

"Brilliant, fun, and enjoyable. [Jenner] is a natural wordsmith and each sentence is wonderfully crafted . . . An excellent debut from an heady new author." —The History Vault

"With a bright, colloquial plough of phrase . . . this book is lively, fun, and completely absorbing." —Current Archaeology

"Hugely entertaining . . . astonishing insights into the origins of our own everyday life." —History Revealed (Volume of the Month)

"Erudite, witty, and packed with things y'all've never thought about. It's i of my all-time favorite books almost history. Admittedly brilliant." —Dr. Peter Frankopan, University of Oxford, writer of The Silk Roads: A New History of The World

"Jenner'due south volume is an amusing examination of what nosotros humans do with ourselves all day." —Publishers Weekly

"An in-depth and humorous account of ancient, medieval, and early on modern habits." —Medievalists.internet

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