Ask the Past, Elizabeth P. Archibald
Ask the Past, Elizabeth P. Archibald
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Ask the Past
Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

Author: Elizabeth P. Archibald

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm, Elizabeth P. Archibald

Unabridged: 2 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2015

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ints on December 05, 2017

Ja esi kraupains ej pie ārsta! Pirms gada nopirku šo grāmatu, nedaudz pašķirstīju, palasīju, pasmējos un noliku vēlākai lasīšanai. Vēlākais laiks nepienāca, grāmata pazuda grāmatu plauktos, un droši vien tā arī būtu stāvējusi trešajā rindā nelasīta vēl labu laiku. Nesen veicu inventarizāciju, un šī g......more

Goodreads review by Morris on May 01, 2015

Historian Elizabeth P. Archibald does a wonderful job in “Ask the Past” of showing that history can be fun and entertaining. Her collection of some of the best/worst excerpts from antique etiquette and advice books and pamphlets, along with accompanying illustrations, had me laughing so hard that I......more