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Ian Mortimer on Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
September - December 2008
Ian Mortimer is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. Being a guidebook, many questions are answered which do not normally occur in traditional history books. How do you greet people in the street? What should you use for toilet paper? How fast - and how safely - can you travel? Why might a physician want to taste your blood? And how do you test to see if you are going down with the plague? The result is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: revolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail, and startling for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence, exuberance and fear.
For more information please contact Zoe Hood on zhood@randomhouse.co.uk or 0207 840 8563