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Ask the Past Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

9780316298896

Ask the Past Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

  • ISBN 13:

    9780316298896

  • ISBN 10:

    0316298891

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 05/05/2015
  • Publisher: Hachette Books
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Summary

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.

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