This blog began in 2003 as Mrs. Rabbitt's Bookbag and continued as From the Library Director from 2005-2010. You can read my newspaper columns at FromtheLibraryColumn published Thursdays in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

American Pests

On BookVideos, author James E. McWilliams describes his book, The World of insects. [This world]
"is one we only dimly understand. Yet from Mrs. Ellis's Housekeeping Made Easy, the nineteenth-century guide to using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators, to the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man".
You can browse this site and listen to the story behind the book. Try searching by author; there aren't that many books on the site and you might be apt to find an author you are interested in before you find a title or category.