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.

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