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Title: A Million Years in a Day
Subtitle: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age
Author: Greg Jenner
Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-13-16
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 44 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock?
Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us 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 Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted. In this gloriously entertaining romp through human history, Greg Jenner explores the gradualand often unexpectedevolution of our daily routines.
This is not a story of wars, politics, or great events. Instead, Jenner has scoured Roman rubbish bins, Egyptian tombs, and Victorian sewers to bring us the most intriguing, surprising, and sometimes downright silly historical nuggets from our past.
Drawn from across the world, spanning a million years of humanity, this book is a smorgasbord of historical delights. It is a history of all those things you always wondered aboutand many you have never considered. It is the story of your life, one million years in the making.
"[Jenner] crafts some fine aphorisms ('History doesn't repeat itselfpeople do'), and it would be a staggeringly learned person who could not glean anything new from this work." The Wall Street Journal
Critic Reviews:
"Erudite, witty, and packed with things you've never thought about." (Dr. Peter Frankopan, author of
Silk Roads)
