Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
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Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

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.

  • TitleAsk the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
  • BrandHachette Books
  • ManufacturerHachette Books
  • BindingHardcover
  • ProductGroupBook
  • ItemPartNumberYES14647082
  • ReleaseDate2015-05-05T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • EANs9780316298896