Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

By Elizabeth P. Archibald

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316298891
• ISBN13: 9780316298896
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 7.2"