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Title: All the Time in the World
Author: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-29-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Summary:
A follow-up to her popular Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, Jenkins' new book offers a string of historical anecdotes structured around the hours of the day, celebrating the unusual, fantastic, and beautiful ways people have spent time throughout theages.
All the Time in theWorld proffers a miscellany of customs, traditions, and pleasures people have pursued throughout the ages. An antidote to the contemporary cult of "getting things done," the book takes its cue from the medieval books of hours, which prescribed certain readings and contemplations for various parts of the day and year. Full of witty bons mots, interesting etymologies, and arresting anecdotes, the book encompasses an array of cultures and eras, including ancient Greece, Renaissance Florence, 1930s Shanghai, and the Hollywood Hills of thelate 1960s, and drifts through the worlds of fashion, beauty, art, food, andtravel. Focusing on the glamorous, eccentric, unusual, and sublime, subjectscovered include the daylong ceremony of laying a royal Elizabethan tablecloth; the radicalization of sartorial chic in 1890s Paris; Nostradamus' belief in the aphrodisiac power of jam (and the book of recipes he published the same year as his predictions); the sensuous practice of sniffing incense in fifteenth century Japan; the American fascination with flaming desserts; the short-livedartistic discipline of "lumia," or visual music; the Ottoman Empire's seventeenth-century ban on coffee; the magnetic atmosphere that fueled Parisian high life in the 1920s; Henriette d'Angeville's fearless ascent of Mont Blanc, armed with thirteen guides, twenty-four roast chickens, and eighteen bottles ofwine; the elaborate treasure hunts concocted by London's Bright Young Things; and the musical revolution known as bebop.
Entertaining, unexpected, and charming, All the Time in the Worlddigs up the forgotten treasures of the past and inspires a passion for good living in the present.

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