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Elizabeth Archibald

Ask the Past

Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

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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 cheesy omelette? This book offers a vision of the past, together with a menu of solutions to the knotty problems of the present - like how to kill a snake with a radish.

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-224-10124-0
  • EAN: 9780224101240
  • Produktnummer: 17461785
  • Verlag: Vintage Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Masse: H14.8 cm x B22.5 cm x D2.5 cm 518 g
  • Abbildungen: Full colour throughout
  • Gewicht: 518
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Elizabeth Archibald holds a Ph.D. in History from Yale University, with research focusing on the history of education from Antiquity to the Renaissance and the History of the Book. She has published on topics including the history of Latin instruction and the history of women's book ownership.She teaches in the Humanities Department at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Ask the Past was born when Elizabeth began posting morsels of advice from medieval manuscripts and rare books to a blog. Today the blog continues to charm a global audience of book lovers and history enthusiasts.

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