Ask the Past : Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
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Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or, simply, how to make a perfect cheesy omelette? Look no further than Ask the Past.
Chock-full of advice that has (and some that hasn''t!) stood the test of time, Ask the Past is the tongue-in-cheek compilation of hilarious and true answers to life''s questions, drawn from actual antique sourcebooks by a historian and bibliophile.
From medieval headache remedies to Renaissance pick-up lines, Ask the Past brings you advice that will make you laugh out loud and shake your head in amazement.
Here are the answers to the questions you’ve always wanted to ask – ''How do I impress my boss?'' or ''How do I put out a fire'' – and some that you didn’t know you needed to. Brimming with advice both wise and weird, and illustrated throughout with charming images from rare books, Ask the Past offers a surprising vision of the past, together with a hilarious menu of solutions to the knotty problems of the present – like how to kill a snake with a radish!
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